Tex. Insurance Code § 1204.002
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 1204.002, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 1204.002. BENEFITS PAYABLE FOR TREATMENT PROVIDED BY HOSPITAL OWNED BY STATE OR UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Official statutory text
An insurance policy providing hospital, nursing, medical, or surgical coverage that is issued or delivered in this state after August 27, 1973, may not include a provision that prevents the payment of benefits for expenses of a nonindigent patient incurred in a hospital facility that:
(1) is owned or controlled by the state or by a unit of local government; and
(2) regularly and customarily demands and collects from nonindigent persons payment for those expenses.
(1) is owned or controlled by the state or by a unit of local government; and
(2) regularly and customarily demands and collects from nonindigent persons payment for those expenses.
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