# 28 Tex. Admin. Code § 3.3710: 28 TAC § 3.3710. Failure to Provide an Adequate Network, DIVISION 1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

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## Section

- **Citation:** 28 Tex. Admin. Code § 3.3710
- **Heading:** 28 TAC § 3.3710. Failure to Provide an Adequate Network, DIVISION 1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
- **Jurisdiction:** Texas
- **Kind:** Regulations
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Texas Administrative Code / Title 28 INSURANCE / Part 1 TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE / Chapter 3 LIFE, ACCIDENT, AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES / 28 TAC § 3.3710

## Text

(a) If the commissioner determines, after notice and
 opportunity for hearing, that the insurer's network and any access
 plan supporting the network are inadequate to ensure that preferred
 provider benefits are reasonably available to all insureds or are
 inadequate to ensure that all medical and health care services and
 items covered under the health insurance policy are provided in a
 manner ensuring availability of and accessibility to adequate personnel,
 specialty care, and facilities, the commissioner may order one or
 more sanctions under the authority of the commissioner in Insurance
 Code Chapters 82, concerning Sanctions, and 83, concerning Emergency
 Cease and Desist Orders, including:
(1) reduction of a service area;
(2) cessation of marketing in parts of the state; and
(3) cessation of marketing entirely and withdrawal
 from the preferred provider benefit plan market.
(b) This section does not affect the authority of the
 commissioner to order any other appropriate corrective action, sanction,
 or penalty under the authority of the commissioner in the Insurance
 Code in addition to or in lieu of the sanctions specified in subsection
 (a) of this section.

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