Relating to electronic health record requirements.
89th Legislature Regular Session
The commission, the Texas Medical Board, and the Texas Department of Insurance shall jointly ensure that: (1) each electronic health record prepared or maintained by a medical facility, health care practitioner, or governmental entity in this state includes a separate space for the health care practitioner to document: (A) an individual's biological sex as either male or female based on the individual's observed biological sex recorded by a health care practitioner at birth; and (B) information on any sexual development disorder of the individual, whether identified at birth or later in the individual's life; and (2) any algorithm or decision assistance tool included in an electronic health record to assist a health care practitioner in making medical treatment decisions is based on an individual's biological sex.
The commission may not provide Medicaid reimbursement to a medical facility or health care practitioner that violates this chapter and shall disenroll the medical facility or health care practitioner from participation as a Medicaid provider.
History
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2025-03-12 | Filed |