Section 1301.069 - Services Provided By Certain Physicians and Health Care Providers The provisions of this chapter relating to prompt payment by an insurer of a physician or health care provider and to verification of medical care or health care services apply to a physician or provider who:
(1) is not a preferred provider included in the preferred provider network; and(2) provides to an insured: (A) care related to an emergency or its attendant episode of care as required by state or federal law; or(B) specialty or other medical care or health care services at the request of the insurer or a preferred provider because the services are not reasonably available from a preferred provider who is included in the preferred delivery network.Tex. Ins. Code § 1301.069
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 728, Sec. 11.037(d), eff. 9/1/2005.