DEFINITIONS.
Tex. HEALTH & SAFETY Code § 254.001.
in effectIn this chapter:
(1) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(2) "Emergency care" has the meaning assigned by Sections 843.002 and 1301.155 , Insurance Code.
(3) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(4) "Facility" means a freestanding emergency medical care facility.
(5) "Freestanding emergency medical care facility" means a facility, structurally separate and distinct from a hospital, that receives an individual and provides emergency care, as defined by Subdivision (2).
(6) "Provider network" has the meaning assigned by Section 1456.001 , Insurance Code.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1273 (H.B. 1357 ), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.
SUBCHAPTER B. LICENSING