Texas HMO Wants Rehearing Over Question On Immunity From Provider’s Suit

(September 15, 2023, 1:32 PM EDT) -- HOUSTON — An appellate ruling finding that a statutorily created hospital district’s nonprofit health maintenance organization was not a unit of local government and therefore not entitled to statutory immunity glosses over complicated issues and ignores Texas Supreme Court precedent and the very purpose for such organizations, an insurer told a Texas appeals court in seeking rehearing and rehearing en banc on Sept. 14....