Section 1662.001 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Billed charge" means the total charges for a health care service or supply billed to a health benefit plan by a health care provider.(2) "Billing code" means the code used by a health benefit plan issuer or administrator or health care provider to identify a health care service or supply for the purposes of billing, adjudicating, and paying claims for a covered health care service or supply, including the Current Procedural Terminology code, the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code, the Diagnosis-Related Group code, the National Drug Code, or other common payer identifier.(3) "Bundled payment arrangement" means a payment model under which a health care provider is paid a single payment for all covered health care services and supplies provided to an enrollee for a specific treatment or procedure.(4) "Copayment assistance" means the financial assistance an enrollee receives from a prescription drug or medical supply manufacturer toward the purchase of a covered health care service or supply.(5) "Cost-sharing information" means information related to any expenditure required by or on behalf of an enrollee with respect to health care benefits that are relevant to a determination of the enrollee's cost-sharing liability for a particular covered health care service or supply.(6) "Cost-sharing liability" means the amount an enrollee is responsible for paying for a covered health care service or supply under the terms of a health benefit plan. The term generally includes deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments but does not include premiums, balance billing amounts by out-of-network providers, or the cost of health care services or supplies that are not covered under a health benefit plan.(7) "Covered health care service or supply" means a health care service or supply, including a prescription drug, for which the costs are payable, wholly or partly, under the terms of a health benefit plan.(8) "Derived amount" means the price that a health benefit plan assigns to a health care service or supply for the purpose of internal accounting, reconciliation with health care providers, or submitting data in accordance with state or federal regulations.(9) "Enrollee" means an individual, including a dependent, entitled to coverage under a health benefit plan.(10) "Health care service or supply" means any encounter, procedure, medical test, supply, prescription drug, durable medical equipment, and fee, including a facility fee, provided or assessed in connection with the provision of health care.(11) "Historical net price" means the retrospective average amount a health benefit plan paid for a prescription drug, inclusive of any reasonably allocated rebates, discounts, chargebacks, and fees and any additional price concessions received by the plan or plan issuer or administrator with respect to the prescription drug, determined in accordance with Section 1662.106.(12) "Machine-readable file" means a digital representation of data in a file that can be imported or read by a computer system for further processing without human intervention while ensuring no semantic meaning is lost.(13) "National drug code" means the unique 10- or 11-digit 3-segment number assigned by the United States Food and Drug Administration that is a universal product identifier for drugs in the United States.(14) "Negotiated rate" means the amount a health benefit plan issuer or administrator has contractually agreed to pay a network provider, including a network pharmacy or other prescription drug dispenser, for covered health care services and supplies, whether directly or indirectly, including through a third-party administrator or pharmacy benefit manager.(15) "Network provider" means any health care provider of a health care service or supply with which a health benefit plan issuer or administrator or a third party for the issuer or administrator has a contract with the terms on which a relevant health care service or supply is provided to an enrollee.(16) "Out-of-network allowed amount" means the maximum amount a health benefit plan issuer or administrator will pay for a covered health care service or supply provided by an out-of-network provider.(17) "Out-of-network provider" means a health care provider of any health care service or supply that does not have a contract under an enrollee's health benefit plan.(18) "Out-of-pocket limit" means the maximum amount that an enrollee is required to pay during a coverage period for the enrollee's share of the costs of covered health care services and supplies under the enrollee's health benefit plan, including for self-only and other than self-only coverage, as applicable.(19) "Prerequisite" means concurrent review, prior authorization, or a step-therapy or fail-first protocol related to a covered health care service or supply that must be satisfied before a health benefit plan issuer or administrator will cover the service or supply. The term does not include a medical necessity determination generally or another form of medical management technique.(20) "Underlying fee schedule rate" means the rate for a covered health care service or supply from a particular network provider or health care provider that a health benefit plan issuer or administrator uses to determine an enrollee's cost-sharing liability for the service or supply when that rate is different from the negotiated rate or derived amount.Tex. Ins. Code § 1662.001
Added by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 333,Sec. 3, eff. 9/1/2021.