| HOSPITALS AND HEALTH CARE FACILITIES |
| A person may not, under section 573.021 of the Health and Safety Code, be taken to the Austin State Hospital, or similar treatment facility, by private conveyance arranged for by the mental health facility that conducted the preliminary examination of the person | GA-0909 |
| Abortion facilities, validity of Department of Health rules adopted under the Health and Safety Code chapter 245, the Texas Abortion Facility Reporting and Licensing Act, that exclude from regulation abortion facilities exempt from licensing under the Act | GA-0212 |
| Abortion facility may not use either a prerecorded telephone message or a one-way conference call to furnish the information required to be provided to a patient by section 171.012, Health and Safety Code | GA-0802 |
| Abortion facility that must be licensed under chapter 245, a facility performing a medical abortion within the scope of subsection 245.002(1) is an
In the presence of a physician, Texas statutes do not require a patient to ingest drugs provided to the patient with the intent to induce an abortion | GA-0803 |
| Abortion facility, Department of Health may not release information about doctors or nurses to licensing board for disciplinary purposes and may not inform person as to whether an office, clinic or facility is or is not licensed as | DM-0153 |
| Ad valorem taxation, patient housing center affiliated with M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is not "private residential housing" and may therefore be exempt from | DM-0272 |
| Application fee under section 118.055 of Local Government Code, Titus Regional Medical Center which is operated by hospital district is exempt from paying in mental health matters | GA-0757 |
| Applications for renewal of medical staff membership or privileges for doctors, podiatrists and dentists, a hospital district board, as the governing body of a hospital, may not delegate its duty to take final action on | GA-0102 |
| Assisted living facilities are not authorized to use facility staff to provide nursing services beyond personal care services and the administration of medication to residents that have a terminal condition or an acute illness of short duration | GA-0742 |
| Assisted living facility, an establishment that furnishes food and shelter to four or more persons who are unrelated to the proprietor and that requires those persons to obtain personal care services through a particular licensed home health agency must be licensed as | GA-0403 |
| Assisted living facility, proprietor may not, by requiring residents to use a particular personal care services provider, abridge residents' rights to choose such providers | GA-0403 |
| Bonds issued by industrial development corporations, hospitals may not be financed by | DM-0080 |
| Building to house emergency medical services vehicle, hospital district’s authority to contribute funds to city for a | GA-0721 |
| Charitable organization created under Health and Safety Code section 281.0565 as a "political corporation or subdivision" under Texas Constitution article III, section 52(a) | GA-1071 |
| Clinic in adjacent county, a county operating a hospital under Health and Safety Code chapter 263 may acquire if commissioners court determines the acquisition is necessary for hospital purposes | GA-0552 |
| Confidential identifying information about patients, hospitals may disclose to Texas Health Care Information Council without patient's written authorization | JC-0508 |
| County hospital district board of managers' action to lease hospital facility, commissioners court has no authority regarding | LO97-017 |
| Credentialing of its allied health professionals such as advance practice nurses, physicians assistants, and perfusionists or autotransfusionists, hospital district board may delegate the | GA-0102 |
| Hospital district board actions, whether approval of commissioners court is required | LO96-092 |
| Hospital district that has not adopted a rate or levied a tax in the prior year, Tax Code does not provide a special method for a tax rate to be adopted by such a district | GA-0798 |
| Hospital district, authority to construct building to lease to private physicians, authority to lease undeveloped real property | LO97-068 |
| Housing expenses of visiting Army medical personnel working for hospital district on temporary basis, authority of county hospital district to pay | LO98-024 |
| Immunity from liability, section 161.001(a) does not provide, for persons who administer vaccines or immunizing agents in a hospital setting to individuals covered by the federal Medicare program | GA-0271 |
| Lease, Chambers County Hospital District may enter into to operate part of hospital facility as drug treatment center | DM-0131 |
| Long-term health care facility, East Coke County Hospital District has authority to operate and levy taxes to maintain and operate | GA-0467 |
| Medical peer review committee, when governing body of hospital district acts as | JC-0108 |
| Medicare, federal and state anti-kickback statutes do not apply to a hospital authority contract that conforms with criteria set forth in federal regulation | DM-0138 |
| Mortgage insurance on new or rehabilitated hospital or long-term care facility, Texas Department of Health may conduct or commission study necessary for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to issue | LO97-035 |
| Nursing facility that provides rehabilitation services under Medicaid, whether hospital licensing laws apply | LO97-088 |
| Nursing facility, applicant for license to operate may be required to disclose prior involvement in operation of nursing facilities | DM-0201 |
| Nursing home, automatic prescription drug dispensing machine located at must be licensed as a pharmacy and under onsite supervision of pharmacist | JC-0186 |
| Out of network emergency care providers - Application of prompt payment provisions and deadline provisions in Insurance Code sections 843.338 and 1301.103 to | KP-0250 |
| Personal-care facility, Board of Human Services may not adopt rule that permits it to offer services beyond those listed in Personal Care Facility Licensing Act | JC-0072 |
| Private imaging business, hospital district's authority to house and manage | GA-0542 |
| Private imaging business, hospital district's authority to house and manage | GA-0546 |
| Private psychiatric facilities and psychiatric care provided by general hospital, inspection and standard setting authority of Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and Texas Department of Health over | DM-0085 |
| Private psychiatric hospitals offering chemical dependency treatment and licensed by Department of Health, exemption from licensing by Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse | LO94-032 |
| Sale and lease back of hospital facility, Hospital District’s authority to | GA-0945 |
| Separate licensing of hospital facility at separate location | DM-0369 |
| Special hospitals are not authorized to provide surgical and obstetrical care | LO96-071 |
| Subsection 11.13(l)(2)(B), Tax Code - A court would likely construe to refer to an owner's temporary residence in an establishment set up to assist persons with overcoming illness or injury, or with needs related to physical or mental weakness or growing old, through a wide range of activities, regardless of whether the owner receives such services | KP-0147 |
| Terms of office of hospital district directors, determining when two directors receive the same number of votes | KP-0002 |
| The Tarrant County Hospital District is authorized by subsection 285.091(a) of the Health and Safety Code to structure the managerial and oversight authority of a physician group as it deems necessary to carry out the functions of or provide services to the District. | KP-0029 |
| The Tarrant County Hospital District is authorized to create and fund a physician group under subsection 281.0565(b) of the Health and Safety Code if it reasonably determines in good faith that the expenditure will serve a public purpose and it put sufficient controls in place to ensure that the public purpose is carried out and that the District receives a return benefit. | KP-0029 |
| Transfer of licensing authority, from Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to Department of Health, over private psychiatric hospitals offering chemical dependency treatment | LO94-032 |
| Voluntary criminal conviction checks by licensees of Department of Human Services and Department of Health of employees licensed under other law, employer required to terminate employee if check reveals convictions for certain types of offenses | DM-0238 |
| Financial Matters |
| Assets of municipal health authority may be disposed of upon dissolution only for a public purpose | LO95-008 |
| Bills and accounts of the county hospital, county auditor must examine and approve before the commissioners court may order payment | GA-0618 |
| Construction of international cultural center at state university, Lubbock County Hospital District has no authority to use its funds for | LO93-034 |
| County auditor has reasonable discretion to refuse to approve a payment of county funds for hospital bill on the grounds that payment is prohibited by law | GA-0618 |
| County may not spend county tax revenue to contribute to operation of county hospital district | KP-0237 |
| Exclusive health provider contract, whether it violates state antitrust laws | JC-0447 |
| Fees for providing medical records in a workers' compensation proceeding, section 408.025(d) of the Labor Code governs the fees a hospital may charge to provide certain records rather than section 241.154(b) of the Health and Safety Code | GA-0399 |
| Fees for retrieval and copying of health care information, whether hospital districts may charge statutory fees in excess of charges established by General Services Commission under Open Records Act | LO96-001 |
| Hospital district board, authority to enter contracts without approval by commissioners court | LO96-092 |
| Hospital district funds transfer to city upon dissolution of hospital district | JC-0268 |
| Municipal hospital authority, permissibility of lease of real property to a private entity to operate a bank, restaurant, or drugstore | LO96-057 |
| Nonindigent medical care, hospital district contract payments to private hospital organization for | JC-0434 |
| Private psychiatric hospital, authority to provide airfare to patient | LO94-001 |
| Records relating to treatment of conditions or injuries for which workers' compensation benefits are not being sought, a hospital licensed under chapter 241 of the Health and Safety Code may charge retrieval and copying fees for | GA-0399 |
| Tax exemption, tests for determining exempt status of building owned by municipal hospital authority but leased in part to private long-term health care company | JC-0571 |
| Taxes levied for hospital district must be used for hospital purposes and may not be used to fund medical examiner's office | LO97-004 |
| Indigent Care |
| County indigent health care, commissioners court authority to adopt eligibility requirements | KP-0059 |
| Dental clinic, whether hospital district may close and financial responsibility for indigent dental care after closing | DM-0037 |
| Dissolution of hospital district, point at which county bears duty to provide indigent health care | LO95-007 |
| Hospital district, closure of district hospital does not relieve hospital district of its liability to provide hospital and medical care | JC-0220 |
| Indigent district residents incarcerated in county jail, Karnes County Hospital District Board of Directors has authority to determine health care services to be provided to | LO93-100 |
| Inmate of county jail, responsibility of hospital district to provide health care for | DM-0380 |
