§ 146.004.Disciplinary Action Not Authorized

A one-sentence limit on the consequences of a violation.

A provider who violates this chapter is not subject to disciplinary action for the violation under any other law, including the law under which the provider is licensed or otherwise holds a grant of authority.

So the chapter’s sanction is the only sanction. Late billing costs the provider the money it cost the patient, and nothing further.

Without this section the risk would be disproportionate. Licensing statutes commonly treat a violation of law in the course of practice as grounds for discipline, so a clerical failure to bill within ten months could in principle threaten a licence.

The Legislature chose a financial remedy and confined the consequence to it — which fits the nature of the failure. Late billing is an administrative lapse, not a question of competence or conduct toward a patient.

"For the violation" is the operative limit. The section protects against discipline for violating this chapter. Conduct that independently breaches a licensing standard is untouched, and a provider who billed late as part of something worse remains exposed to it.

"Any other law" is broad, covering licensing boards, facility regulation, and other regulatory schemes alike.

The section also settles a question for the boards themselves, which would otherwise face complaints about billing timeliness that the Legislature had already remedied elsewhere.