This subtitle does not prohibit a hospital from entering into an independent contractor agreement with a physician to provide services at the hospital or at another health care facility owned or operated by the hospital and:

1. (1) paying the physician a minimum guaranteed amount to ensure the physician's availability;
2. (2) billing and collecting from patients the physician's professional fees; or
3. (3) retaining the collected professional fees up to the amount of the minimum guaranteed amount plus a reasonable collection fee.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.