Sec. 1301.069.  SERVICES PROVIDED BY CERTAIN PHYSICIANS AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.  The provisions of this chapter relating to prompt payment by an insurer of a physician or health care provider and to verification of medical care or health care services apply to a physician or provider who:
(1)  is not a preferred provider included in the preferred provider network; and
(2)  provides to an insured:
(A)  care related to an emergency or its attendant episode of care as required by state or federal law; or
(B)  specialty or other medical care or health care services at the request of the insurer or a preferred provider because the services are not reasonably available from a preferred provider who is included in the preferred delivery network.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 728 (H.B. 2018), Sec. 11.037(d), eff. September 1, 2005.