Sec. 159.0061.  APPOINTMENT OF CUSTODIAN OF PHYSICIAN'S RECORDS.  (a)  The board by rule shall establish conditions under which the board may temporarily or permanently appoint a person as a custodian of a physician's billing or medical records.  In adopting rules under this section, the board shall consider the death of a physician, the mental or physical incapacitation of a physician, and the abandonment of billing or medical records by a physician.
(b)  The rules adopted under this section must provide for:
(1)  the release of the billing or medical records by an appointed custodian in compliance with this chapter;  and
(2)  a fee charged by the appointed custodian that is in addition to the copying fee governed by Section 159.008.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 984, Sec. 6, eff. June 15, 2001.