President of IRO Group Rips TDI for Proposed Medical Director Rules

Amid the spirited arguments about whether independent medical-review organizations in Texas should be paid more for their services, one IRO association executive used written public comments to raise strong objections to the Texas Department of Insurance’s proposed requirements for IRO medical directors. Chris Crow, the president of the American Association of Independent Review Organizations and a member of TDI’s IRO Advisory Group, criticized new language in the department's proposed IRO rules that he said was not addressed in the 2013 legislation that prompted the rulemakin...