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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas; Texas Department of Insurance · Texas
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Governor's rescission of statutory suspensions effective September 20, 2021
- Issued
- 2021-07-22 July 22, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-09-20
- End
- Terminates the suspensions of B-0007-20, B-0008-20, B-0009-20 and B-0014-20 and the telemedicine suspension as of September 20, 2021 (read as 2021-09-20)
- In force
- Sept. 20, 2021 to Sept. 20, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- all TDI-regulated carriers, agents, adjusters and licensees
- Functions reached
- IN insurers, agents, adjusters (claims deadlines, licensing, fingerprints resume Sept. 20, 2021)
- CB health plans and telemedicine providers (audio-only coverage requirement ends Sept. 20, 2021)
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State insurance and banking regulators AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING
Operative words
Governor Greg Abbott has rescinded suspensions of insurance-related statutes and rules issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, effective September 20, 2021... Telehealth and telemedicine: The Governor originally suspended Texas Insurance Code Section 1455.004(c) to the extent necessary to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for a covered telemedicine medical service or a telehealth service provided through an audio-only phone consultation. All requirements of Section 1455.004 will resume on September 20, 2021. Prompt payment: The temporary extension of claim-handling deadlines, as outlined in Commissioner's Bulletin B-0007-20, is canceled and superseded by this bulletin. As a result, an automatic extension of claim-handling deadlines will no longer be available for claims submitted to carriers on or after September 20, 2021... Fingerprints must be submitted with applications and filings that require them beginning September 20, 2021.
Enforcement
Tex. Ins. Code chs. 82, 84
Notes
The Texas regulator's own statement that its COVID-19 statutory suspensions remained in force until September 20, 2021, the last ten days of the third quarter of 2021 excepted.
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