Amend CSSB 30 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 2 of the bill, strike added Section 18.0011(a), Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 2, lines 31-45), and substitute the following:
(a) A party may not controvert the reasonableness of the charges for health care services stated in an affidavit served under Section 18.001 if, as to each health care service provided by the health care facility or provider to the person whose injury or death is the subject of the action, the affidavit states one of the following amounts as the reasonable charge for the service:
(1) the amounts received from all sources by the facility or provider to pay for the service; or
(2) if Subdivision (1) does not apply, an amount that, on the date the service was provided, does not exceed the usual and customary rate for the service.
(2) In SECTION 8 of the bill, in added Section 41.104(a)(3), Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 7, line 21), strike "300 percent of the Medicare fee schedule" and substitute "the usual and customary rate".
(3) In SECTION 8 of the bill, in added Section 41.104(b), Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 7, line 30), strike "300 percent of the Medicare fee schedule" and substitute "the usual and customary rate".
(4) In SECTION 8 of the bill, strike added Section 41.104(c), Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 7, lines 32-37).