The 89^th Texas Legislature: 2025 Healthcare legislative update

Lawmakers passed a number of bills that will further transform the healthcare landscape in Texas during the 140-day regular session of the 89^th Texas Legislature.

Norton Rose Fulbright’s 2025 Healthcare legislative update highlights the most recent laws that are driving change and shaping the future of healthcare across Texas.

Key measures enacted include new requirements for healthcare facilities to provide clear price estimates, a streamlined dispute and mediation process, more vigorous enforcement against Medicaid fraud and expanded agency oversight of public benefits providers.

Additional reforms restrict noncompete agreements applicable to physicians and practitioners and thus, impact hospital arrangements with physicians; ban pharmacy gag clauses, regulate artificial intelligence and create a new Dementia Prevention and Research Institute to fund research and prevention efforts targeting dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.

In parallel actions to the federal establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Texas Legislature established the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office within the Office of the Governor, tasked with enhancing the rulemaking process for state agencies and improving public access to regulatory information.

Download the full 2025 Healthcare legislative update to learn which newly enacted bills may impact your organization most.

Special thanks to summer associates Miranda Martin and Willa Scanlon for assisting in the preparation of this article.