February 28, 2019      8:13 PM

Chairs Hancock and Martinez Fischer announce push for reform to surprise medical billing, drawing fire from the docs

TMA pushes back, saying they’re disappointed Hancock “has chosen not to include medicine in discussions to this point.”

Senator Kelly Hancock R, North Richland Hills, on Thursday announced that he had filed a new bill as part of a bipartisan push to prevent “surprise medical billing” of consumers in Texas.

He was joined in a news conference by constituents of his district who had been affected by the practice as well as members of the insurance industry along with Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, who plans to file a companion bill in the Texas House.

The subject of Senator Hancock’s SB 1264 is not a new issue for him.

By Andrew Turner

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