{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-insurance-code-1201.060","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Insurance Code § 1201.060","heading":"REQUIRED DEFINITION OF \"EMERGENCY CARE\" IN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP POLICY.","body":"An individual or group accident and health insurance policy that provides an emergency care benefit, including a policy issued by a corporation operating under Chapter 842, must define \"emergency care\" as follows:\n\"Emergency care\" means bona fide emergency services provided after the sudden onset of a medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including severe pain, such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in:\n(1) placing the patient's health in serious jeopardy;\n(2) serious impairment to bodily functions; or\n(3) serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part.\nAdded by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.","path":["INSURANCE CODE","TITLE 8. HEALTH INSURANCE AND OTHER HEALTH COVERAGES","SUBTITLE A. HEALTH COVERAGE IN GENERAL","CHAPTER 1201. ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE","SUBCHAPTER B. POLICY TERMS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1201.htm#1201.060","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:21Z","sha256":"455b6cdd83823d7727eb15c54cc38c4dca5ad0bfbf8953173b5cb7d3b21a2472","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-insurance-code-1201.059","next":"us-tx/tex.-insurance-code-1201.0601"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}