Tex. Insurance Code § 562.056
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 562.056, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 562.056. CERTAIN METHODS OF PROMOTIONS.
Official statutory text
(a) It is an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of discount health care programs for a discount health care program operator to pay any consideration to a health care services provider or employee of a health care services provider:
(1) to encourage an individual to claim a discount for prescription drugs under a discount health care program; or
(2) to include discount health care program information on a prescription for a drug or in materials accompanying the prescription.
(b) It is an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of discount health care programs for a discount health care program operator to provide a person with written prescription forms that could reasonably mislead an individual to believe that the discount health care program is health insurance or provides coverage similar to health insurance.
(1) to encourage an individual to claim a discount for prescription drugs under a discount health care program; or
(2) to include discount health care program information on a prescription for a drug or in materials accompanying the prescription.
(b) It is an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of discount health care programs for a discount health care program operator to provide a person with written prescription forms that could reasonably mislead an individual to believe that the discount health care program is health insurance or provides coverage similar to health insurance.
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