Texas HB1959 regulates health benefit plan issuers' practices in ranking and classifying physicians and using incentives to encourage use of certain.

Texas HB1959 amends the Insurance Code to regulate practices of health benefit plan issuers, including insurers and health maintenance organizations. The bill prohibits these entities from ranking or classifying physicians into tiers based on performance or publishing physician-specific information that includes rankings, tiers, ratings, or comparisons of a physician's performance against standards, measures, or other physicians, unless certain conditions are met.

Texas HB1959 regulates health benefit plan issuers' practices in ranking and classifying physicians and using incentives to encourage use of certain.

Texas HB1959 amends the Insurance Code to regulate practices of health benefit plan issuers, including insurers and health maintenance organizations. The bill prohibits these entities from ranking or classifying physicians into tiers based on performance or publishing physician-specific information that includes rankings, tiers, ratings, or comparisons of a physician's performance against standards, measures, or other physicians, unless certain conditions are met.