Section 254.157 - Certain Advertising Prohibited(a) A facility may not advertise or hold itself out as a network provider, including by stating that the facility "takes" or "accepts" any insurer, health maintenance organization, health benefit plan, or health benefit plan network, unless the facility is a network provider of a health benefit plan issuer.(b) A facility may not post the name or logo of a health benefit plan issuer in any signage or marketing materials if the facility is an out-of-network provider for all of the issuer's health benefit plans.(c) A violation of this section is a false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice under Subchapter E, Chapter 17, Business & Commerce Code, and is actionable under that subchapter.Tex. Gov't. Code § 254.157
Added by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 1093,Sec. 6, eff. 9/1/2019.