TITLE: Relating to notice of the cash price of certain health care services by certain hospitals.

SUMMARY: Relating to notice of the cash price of certain health care services by certain hospitals.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to notice of the cash price of certain health care services by certain hospitals. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 311.0015 to read as follows: Sec. 311.0015. DISCLOSURE OF CASH PRICE. (a) In this section, "hospital" means a hospital: (1) licensed under Chapter 241; or (2) owned or operated by this state or an agency of this state. (b) A hospital shall disclose the hospital's cash price for each health care service regularly provided by the hospital. The required disclosure must be made by conspicuously posting the prices on the hospital's publicly accessible Internet website. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.