Tex. Health and Safety Code § 254.001
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 254.001, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 254.001. DEFINITIONS.
Official statutory text
In this chapter:
(1) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(2) "Emergency care" has the meaning assigned by Sections 843.002 and 1301.155, Insurance Code.
(3) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(4) "Facility" means a freestanding emergency medical care facility.
(5) "Freestanding emergency medical care facility" means a facility, structurally separate and distinct from a hospital, that receives an individual and provides emergency care, as defined by Subdivision (2).
(6) "Provider network" has the meaning assigned by Section 1456.001, Insurance Code.
(1) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(2) "Emergency care" has the meaning assigned by Sections 843.002 and 1301.155, Insurance Code.
(3) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(4) "Facility" means a freestanding emergency medical care facility.
(5) "Freestanding emergency medical care facility" means a facility, structurally separate and distinct from a hospital, that receives an individual and provides emergency care, as defined by Subdivision (2).
(6) "Provider network" has the meaning assigned by Section 1456.001, Insurance Code.
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