Sec. 1368.006. LIMITATION ON COVERAGE

(a) In this section, "treatment series" means a planned, structured, and organized program to promote chemical-free status that:

(1) may include different facilities or modalities; and

(2) is completed when the covered individual:

(A) is, on medical advice, discharged from:

(i) inpatient detoxification;

(ii) inpatient rehabilitation or treatment;

(iii) partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient treatment; or

(iv) a series of those levels of treatments without a lapse in treatment; or

(B) fails to materially comply with the treatment program for a period of 30 days.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 1368.005, coverage required under this chapter is limited to a lifetime maximum of three separate treatment series for each covered individual.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.