Section 185.001 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Debt collection" has the meaning assigned by Section 392.001, Finance Code. (2) "Health care provider" means a facility licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized to provide health care services or supplies in this state in the ordinary course of business, including a hospital, except the term does not include a federally-qualified health center, as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 1396d (l)(2)(B). (3) "Health care service" means a service a health care provider provides to an individual to diagnose, prevent, treat, alleviate, cure, or heal a human health condition, illness, injury, or disease. Tex. Health and Safety Code § 185.001
Added by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 271,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2023.