Texas Labor Codes 408.0223
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§ 408.0223 Insurance Carrier Networks
| a) In this section, "insurance carrier network" means a voluntary workers' compensation health care delivery network established by an insurance carrier The term does not include a regional network established under Section 408.0221.
(b) This subtitle does not prohibit an insurance carrier, whether doing business as an individual carrier or as a group, from participating in or maintaining voluntary insurance carrier networks if those voluntary insurance carrier networks allow selection of doctors as provided by Section 408.022. (c) This subtitle does not prohibit an insurance carrier from concurrently participating in an insurance carrier network and a regional network established under Section 408.0221. (d) The standards adopted for preferred provider networks under Article 3.70-3C, Insurance Code, as added by Chapter 1024, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, and as subsequently amended, apply as minimum standards for insurance carrier networks and are adopted by reference in this section except to the extent those standards are inconsistent with this subtitle The advisory committee, defined in Section 408.0221, may recommend additional standards for insurance carrier networks that are no more stringent than the additional standards that the advisory committee recommends for regional health care delivery networks pursuant to Section 408.0221(g). (e) The Texas Workers' Compensation Commission shall adopt rules, as necessary, to implement additional standards for insurance carrier networks.
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