Sec. 1301.059.  QUALITY ASSESSMENT.  (a)  In this section, "quality assessment" means a mechanism used by an insurer to evaluate, monitor, or improve the quality and effectiveness of the medical care delivered by physicians or health care providers to persons covered by a health insurance policy to ensure that the care delivered is consistent with the care delivered by an ordinary, reasonable, and prudent physician or health care provider under the same or similar circumstances.
(b)  An insurer may not engage in quality assessment except through a panel of at least three physicians selected by the insurer from among a list of physicians contracting with the insurer.  The physicians contracting with the insurer in the applicable service area shall provide the list of physicians to the insurer.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.