- (a) This chapter applies to a physician regardless of whether the physician is a participating physician.
(b) This chapter applies to a person with whom a managed care plan issuer contracts to:
- (1) process or pay claims;
- (2) obtain the services of physicians to provide health care services to enrollees; or
- (3) issue verifications or preauthorizations.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1121 (S.B. 1148), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2018.