{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-552.016","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 552.016","heading":"FEES.","body":"(a) Except as provided by this section, the department may not charge a fee that exceeds the cost to the state to support, maintain, and treat a patient.\n(b) The executive commissioner may use the projected cost of providing inpatient services to establish by rule the maximum fee that may be charged to a payer.\n(c) The executive commissioner by rule may establish the maximum fee according to one or a combination of the following:\n(1) a statewide per capita;\n(2) an individual facility per capita; or\n(3) the type of service provided.\n(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), the executive commissioner by rule may establish a fee in excess of the department's projected cost of providing inpatient services that may be charged to a payer:\n(1) who is not an individual; and\n(2) whose method of determining the rate of reimbursement to a provider results in the excess.\nAdded by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.\nAmended by:\nActs 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1338, eff. April 2, 2015.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY","SUBTITLE B. STATE FACILITIES","CHAPTER 552. STATE HOSPITALS","SUBCHAPTER B. INDIGENT AND NONINDIGENT PATIENTS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.552.htm#552.016","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"e82d02db5d8fbe8df98ad2f154b35bd8879f97bb20edc478baf432dbe876ef0c","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-552.015","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-552.017"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}