Section 1365.053 - Choice Of Hearing Aid(a) A health benefit plan that provides coverage for hearing aids may not deny an enrollee's claim for a hearing aid solely on the basis that the price of the hearing aid is more than the benefit available under the health benefit plan. (b) Notwithstanding Section 1367.253(d), this section applies to a health benefit plan subject to Subchapter F, Chapter 1367. (c) Nothing in this section requires a health benefit plan to pay an enrollee's claim for a hearing aid in an amount that is more than the benefit available under the health benefit plan. Tex. Ins. Code § 1365.053
Added by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 8,Sec. 3, eff. 9/1/2023, app. only to a health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024.