Amend CSSB 507 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____.  Section 1456.001(1), Insurance Code, is amended to read as follows:
(1)  "Balance billing" means the practice of charging an enrollee in a health benefit plan that uses a provider network to recover from the enrollee the balance of a non-network health care provider's fee for service received by the enrollee from the health care provider that is not fully reimbursed by the enrollee's health benefit plan. The term does not include charging for:
(A)  any deductible, copayment, or coinsurance amount for which the enrollee is obligated under the health benefit plan; or
(B)  any amount the health benefit plan is obligated to reimburse the enrollee or to pay on behalf of the enrollee for service received by the enrollee from the health care provider.