The following facilities are not required to be licensed under this chapter:

1. (1) an office or clinic owned and operated by a manufacturing facility solely for the purposes of treating its employees and contractors;
2. (2) temporary emergency clinics in disaster areas;
3. (3) an office or clinic of a licensed physician, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist;
4. (4) a licensed nursing home;
5. (5) a licensed hospital;
6. (6) a hospital that is owned and operated by this state;
7. (7) a facility located within or connected to a hospital described by Subsection (5) or (6);

8. (8) a facility that is owned or operated by a hospital described by Subsection (5) or (6) and is:

   1. (A) surveyed as a service of the hospital by an organization that has been granted deeming authority as a national accreditation program for hospitals by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; or
   2. (B) granted provider-based status by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; or
9. (9) a licensed ambulatory surgical center.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1273 (H.B. 1357), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.