1. (a) The payment of benefits under an assignment does not relieve a covered person of a contractual obligation to pay a deductible or copayment.
2. (b) A physician or other health care provider may not waive a deductible or copayment by the acceptance of an assignment.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.