Sec. 164.008. OPERATING AN INTERVENTION AND ASSESSMENT SERVICE

A treatment facility may not own, operate, manage, or control an intervention and assessment service that makes referrals to a treatment facility for inpatient treatment of mental illness or chemical dependency unless the intervention and assessment service:

(1) is a qualified mental health referral service under Section 164.007;

(2) discloses in all advertising the relationship between the treatment facility and the intervention and assessment service; and

(3) discloses to each person contacting the service, at the time of initial contact, the relationship between the treatment facility and the intervention and assessment service.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.