Section 254.052 - Exemptions From Licensing Requirement The following facilities are not required to be licensed under this chapter:
(1) an office or clinic owned and operated by a manufacturing facility solely for the purposes of treating its employees and contractors;(2) temporary emergency clinics in disaster areas;(3) an office or clinic of a licensed physician, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist;(4) a licensed nursing home;(6) a hospital that is owned and operated by this state;(7) a facility located within or connected to a hospital described by Subsection (5) or (6);(8) a facility that is owned or operated by a hospital described by Subsection (5) or (6) and is: (A) surveyed as a service of the hospital by an organization that has been granted deeming authority as a national accreditation program for hospitals by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; or(B) granted provider-based status by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; or(9) a licensed ambulatory surgical center.Tex. Health and Safety Code § 254.052
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1273, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2009.