Section 1204.053 - Assignment of Benefits(a) An insurer may not deliver, renew, or issue for delivery in this state a health insurance policy that prohibits or restricts a covered person from making a written assignment of benefits to a physician or other health care provider who provides health care services to the person.(b) This section does not: (1) provide a coverage or benefit that is not otherwise available under the health insurance policy;(2) allow assignment of a benefit to: (A) a person who is not legally entitled to receive such a direct payment; or(B) another person if, under the health insurance policy or plan, the benefit must be provided to the covered person by a physician or other health care provider who is a contractor or preferred provider under the policy; or(3) prohibit an insurer from verifying, through the insurer's normal process, the health care services the physician or other health care provider provides to the covered person.Tex. Ins. Code § 1204.053
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. 4/1/2005.