Bill Would Apply One-Year Limit on Provider Payment Disputes to All Claims

Virginia employers and work comp carriers would have one year to seek recovery of payments to health care providers regardless of the date payment was made, under legislation moving through the General Assembly. HB 205, by Del. Shelly A. Simonds, D-Newport News, would remove from current law a provision that prohibits employers or carriers from trying to recover payments from doctors more than one year after the date payment was made for services provided after July 1, 2014. The requirement to act within a year would apply to all recovery efforts without regard to when payment was made. At t...