Sec. 151.055.  APPLICATION TO CERTAIN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AGREEMENTS.  This subtitle does not prohibit a hospital from entering into an independent contractor agreement with a physician to provide services at the hospital or at another health care facility owned or operated by the hospital and:
(1)  paying the physician a minimum guaranteed amount to ensure the physician's availability;
(2)  billing and collecting from patients the physician's professional fees;  or
(3)  retaining the collected professional fees up to the amount of the minimum guaranteed amount plus a reasonable collection fee.
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.