If you have any questions prior to filing, please contact 512-676-6676 or email LifeHealth@tdi.texas.gov
Per 28 TAC Section 3.13(e) fees are due and must be paid at the time a filing is accepted for review. If the issuer fails to pay fees within five business days following the date of acceptance for review, the department may consider the filing withdrawn from review by the issuer. The department will not give any consideration to withdrawn or rejected filings until the issuer resubmits the filing as a new filing.
Note: A filing withdrawn or rejected for failure to pay fees is subject to the initial filing fee for the respective filing. The filing fee of $50 applies to withdrawn filings that the department previously reviewed or considered.
Filings fees Life, health, and HMO filings are specified in 28 TAC Section 3.13. Related forms may be submitted in a single filing. Multiple policy forms may not be submitted in a single filing.
For example, in the SERFF Filing Fee tab:
- Fee Calculation Explanation: Filing one policy, three related riders and application = $100
- Fee Calculation Explanation: Filing an exempt filing = $50
- Fee Calculation Explanation: Filing a long-term care rate increase = $100
- Fee Calculation Explanation: Filing an advertisement = $0
| Form Filings | Fee |
|---|---|
| Form filings subject to the following exceptions: | $100.00 |
| Exempt from review under 28 TAC Section 3.4004 | $ 50.00 |
| Resubmission of a previously disapproved or withdrawn form | $ 50.00 |
| Substitution as defined in 28 TAC Section 3.1(31) | No Fee |
| Advertising - All Lines of Insurance | No Fee |
| Amendment | $100.00 |
| Application | $100.00 |
| Credit | $100.00 |
| Evidence of coverage | $100.00 |
| HMO member handbooks | $100.00 |
| HMO | $100.00 |
| Life settlements | $100.00 |
| Matrix forms | $50.00 for each form number filed with a maximum fee of $500.00 |
| Outline of coverage | No Fee |
| Policy | $100.00 |
| Report filings (no forms) | No Fee |
| Rider | $100.00 |
| Schedule of benefits | $100.00 |
| Written plan description | No Fee |
| Rate Filings | Fee |
| Credit Life, LTC, Medicare supplement | $100.00 |
| Long term care | $100.00 |
| Medicare | $100.00 |
| Rate filing (separate from forms) | $100.00 |
| All other rate filings | $ 50.00 |
| MCQA Filings | Fee |
| Access plans | No fee |
| Annual notices to physicians and providers | No fee |
| Delegation agreements | No fee |
| Network configurations | No fee |
| Physician and provider contracts | No fee |
| Provider listings | No fee |
| Quality assurance procedures | No fee |
| Waiver filings | No fee |
| Other Filings | Fee |
| Face pages | No fee |
| Group eligibility filings | No fee |
| Informational filings | No fee |
| Medicare supplement reports | No fee |