Sec. 843.341.  CLAIMS PROCESSING PROCEDURES.  (a)  A health maintenance organization shall provide a participating physician or provider with copies of all applicable utilization review policies and claim processing policies or procedures.
(b)  A health maintenance organization's claims payment processes shall:
(1)  use nationally recognized, generally accepted Current Procedural Terminology codes, notes, and guidelines, including all relevant modifiers;  and
(2)  be consistent with nationally recognized, generally accepted bundling edits and logic.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.  Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 214, Sec. 13, eff. June 17, 2003.