(a) A health care collaborative shall implement and maintain complaint systems that provide reasonable procedures to resolve an oral or written complaint initiated by:
- (1) a patient who received health care services provided by a participating physician or health care provider; or
- (2) a participating physician or health care provider.
- (b) The complaint system for complaints initiated by patients must include a process for the notice and appeal of a complaint.
- (c) A health care collaborative may not take a retaliatory or adverse action against a physician or health care provider who files a complaint with a regulatory authority regarding an action of the health care collaborative.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 4.01, eff. September 28, 2011.