By John P. Kamin, ReporterPayers will lobby the Texas House of Representatives' Insurance Committee today to exempt workers' compensation insurers from a bill that would require insurers to respond to certain types of medication requests within 48 hours.Steve Nichols, workers' compensation manager for the Insurance Council of Texas, told WorkCompCentral via email that House Bill 1032 would hurt the state's existing closed formulary process. He noted that if a provider prescribes a medication that is on the Division of Workers' Compensation's "N" list, also known as the ...
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