Texas Labor Code

§ 408.029 — NURSE FIRST ASSISTANT SERVICES

LA § 408.029Title 5. WORKERS' COMPENSATION · Part A. TEXAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT · Ch. 408. WORKERS' COMPENSATION BENEFITS · Art. B. MEDICAL BENEFITS

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An insurance carrier may not refuse to reimburse a health care practitioner solely because that practitioner is a nurse first assistant, as defined by Section 301.1525, Occupations Code, for a covered service that a physician providing health care services under this subtitle has requested the nurse first assistant to perform.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 812, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.