Tex. Insurance Code § 1204.054
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 1204.054, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 1204.054. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS ACCORDING TO ASSIGNMENT.
Official statutory text
An insurer shall pay benefits directly to a physician or other health care provider, and the insurer is relieved of the obligation to pay, and of any liability for paying, those benefits to the covered person if:
(1) the covered person makes a written assignment of those benefits payable to the physician or other health care provider; and
(2) the assignment is obtained by or delivered to the insurer with the claim for benefits.
(1) the covered person makes a written assignment of those benefits payable to the physician or other health care provider; and
(2) the assignment is obtained by or delivered to the insurer with the claim for benefits.
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