Bill Text: TX HB3022 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3022 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the dispute by an insurer of a determination of specific injuries and diagnoses in connection with a compensable injury in certain workers' compensation claims.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-30 - Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) [HB3022 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3022-Introduced.html

	83R2408 JSC-D

	By: Zedler	H.B. No. 3022



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the dispute by an insurer of a determination of specific
	injuries and diagnoses in connection with a compensable injury in
	certain workers' compensation claims.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 408.0042, Labor Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
	follows:
	(c) After the medical examination is performed, the
	treating doctor shall submit to the insurance carrier a report that
	details all injuries and diagnoses related to the compensable
	injury, on receipt of which the insurance carrier shall:
	(1) accept all injuries and diagnoses as related to
	the compensable injury; or
	(2) dispute the determination of specific injuries and
	diagnoses by requesting:
	(A) an examination by a designated doctor under
	Section 408.0041; or
	(B) a benefit review conference under Section
	410.023.
	(c-1) If an insurance carrier does not dispute the
	determination of specific injuries and diagnoses detailed in the
	report submitted by the treating doctor under Subsection (c) on or
	before the 90th day after the date the report is provided to the
	insurance carrier, the insurance carrier waives its right to
	dispute the determination, unless there is a finding of evidence
	that could not reasonably have been discovered earlier.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a medical examination by a treating doctor that occurs on or
	after the effective date of this Act. A medical examination that
	occurs before that date is governed by the law as it existed
	immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former
	law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.