Ambulance billing protections would end when federal law takes effect, not on a set date
What it does
SB 54 would change when the Texas protections against balance billing by out-of-network emergency medical services providers expire. Under current law, several of those protections end on September 1, 2027. Under this bill, they would end the day after the Texas attorney general publishes a finding in the Texas Register that a federal law has taken effect and bars those providers from balance billing.
What it means for your community
If an ambulance company bills you out of network, the state protections against balance billing would stay in place until federal action is confirmed and published. If no such federal law takes effect, the protections would not expire on a calendar date under this bill. The bill would also keep the state's licensing authority over ambulance providers for conduct that happened before the protections expire.
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