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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 2. HEALTH |
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Subtitle B. HEALTH PROGRAMS |
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Chapter 46. TERTIARY MEDICAL CARE |
Sec. 46.001. DEFINITIONS
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In this chapter:
(1) "Tertiary care facility" means a:
(A) primary teaching hospital of a medical school;
(B) level I trauma center;
(C) level II trauma center; or
(D) level III trauma center.
(2) "Tertiary medical services" includes, but is not limited to, services provided by state-designated trauma centers, burn center treatment, neonatology level III unit services, pediatric surgery, trauma surgery, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, organ transplant, services provided for a life-threatening dermatologic illness, services provided to a person with a high-risk pregnancy or cancer, and radiation oncology.
(3) "Stabilization services" means services provided by a tertiary care facility or a level IV designated trauma center that are necessary to assure, within reasonable medical probability, that no material deterioration of a patient's medical condition is likely to result from or occur during the transfer of the patient to a tertiary care facility.
(4) "Unreimbursed stabilization services" means stabilization services for which a tertiary care facility or level IV designated trauma facility has not received full payment from any public or private source.
(5) "Unreimbursed tertiary medical services" means tertiary care medical services for which a tertiary care facility has not received full payment from any public or private source.