Sec. 843.3042. CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES. (a) A health maintenance organization offering a health care plan that covers a service that is within the scope of a chiropractor's license may not refuse to provide reimbursement to an in-network chiropractor for the performance of the covered service solely because the service is provided by a chiropractor.
(b) This section does not require a health maintenance organization to cover a particular health care service.
(c) This section does not affect the right of a health maintenance organization to determine whether a health care service is medically necessary.
(d) A health maintenance organization that violates this section is subject to an administrative penalty as provided by Chapter 84 of not more than $1,000 for each claim that remains unpaid in violation of this section. Each day the violation continues constitutes a separate violation.
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 116 (S.B. 1739), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
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