Sec. 46.002. RULES

(a) The board may adopt rules to implement a system that encourages hospitals to provide tertiary medical services and stabilization services.

(b) The rules must address:

(1) coordination of tertiary medical services and stabilization services among health care facilities in the delivery area;

(2) pre-hospital care management guidelines for triage, transfer, and transportation of patients and periodic evaluation of tertiary care facilities' and level IV trauma facilities' compliance with the guidelines and the trauma facility rules, as appropriate;

(3) requirements for data collection, including patient outcomes;

(4) assurances that tertiary care facilities will not refuse to accept the transfer of a patient solely because of the person's inability to pay for services or because of the person's age, sex, race, religion, or national origin; and

(5) enforcement of the rules.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 969, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1377, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.