Data Show Handful of Providers Generate Most Medical Fee Disputes

When the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation announced last month that it was pushing a new rule to allow medical fee dispute resolution requests to be sent electronically, one line in the rulemaking memo caught the attention of a few stakeholders. “About 70% of the requests DWC receives by mail … are submitted by 15 entities,” Deputy Commissioner Kara Mace wrote. The DWC has said medical fee disputes overall have dropped steadily in the past two decades, for a number of reasons. But the fact that a handful of providers are making most of the adjudication filings h...