{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-insurance-code-1451.259","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Insurance Code § 1451.259","heading":"LIMITS ON PHYSICIAN SANCTIONS.","body":"(a) A health benefit plan may not sanction or terminate a primary care physician because of female enrollees' access to participating obstetricians and gynecologists under this subchapter.\n(b) A health benefit plan may not impose a financial or other penalty on an obstetrician or gynecologist selected under Section 1451.255, or on the enrollee who selected the physician, because the selected physician failed to provide to the enrollee's primary care physician information concerning the medical care of the enrollee if the selected physician made a reasonable good faith effort to forward the information.\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 F. PHYSICIANS AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS","CHAPTER 1451. ACCESS TO CERTAIN PRACTITIONERS AND FACILITIES","SUBCHAPTER F. ACCESS TO OBSTETRICAL OR GYNECOLOGICAL CARE"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1451.htm#1451.259","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:21Z","sha256":"32fa18bd05414ce6a146ac70e0c1207ec77126175266561c8a70ab6a093c9201","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-insurance-code-1451.258","next":"us-tx/tex.-insurance-code-1451.260"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}