Sec. 848.107.  COMPLAINT SYSTEMS.  (a)  A health care collaborative shall implement and maintain complaint systems that provide reasonable procedures to resolve an oral or written complaint initiated by:
(1)  a patient who received health care services provided by a participating physician or health care provider; or
(2)  a participating physician or health care provider.
(b)  The complaint system for complaints initiated by patients must include a process for the notice and appeal of a complaint.
(c)  A health care collaborative may not take a retaliatory or adverse action against a physician or health care provider who files a complaint with a regulatory authority regarding an action of the health care collaborative.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 4.01, eff. September 28, 2011.