28 TAC §§21.2607
The Commissioner of Insurance adopts the repeal of §21.2607 concerning minimum standards for benefits provided to enrollees with diabetes in health benefit plans and coverage under health benefit plans for equipment and supplies and self-management training associated with the treatment of diabetes. The repeal is adopted without changes to the proposed text as published in the January 10, 2003 issue of the Texas Register (28 TexReg 434) and will not be republished.
The repeal is necessary to remove language for which the statutory authority has expired.
The repeal of the section eliminates language which is no longer necessary. Contemporaneously with this repeal, adopted amendments to §§21.2601 and 21.2606 are published elsewhere in this issue of the Texas Register.
No comments were received.
The repeal is adopted under the Insurance Code Articles 21.53D and §36.001. Article 21.53D §3 provides that the commissioner shall by rule adopt minimum standards for benefits to enrollees with diabetes. Section 36.001 provides that the Commissioner of Insurance may adopt rules necessary and appropriate to execute the powers and duties of the Texas Department of Insurance.
§21.2607. Accessibility and Availability of Diabetes Self-Management Training Prior to January 1, 2002.