Bill Would Let Doctors Barred Before 2007 Seek Reinstatement to WC System

Doctors who were left out of the Texas workers' compensation system for more than a decade will have a chance to re-enlist, thanks to a bill under consideration in the state House of Representatives. House Bill 733, sponsored by Rep. Bill Zedler, R-Arlington, would correct the wording of current law, which forbids the participation of doctors who were removed from the list of authorized physicians but were not reinstated before Sept. 1, 2007. That left a number of doctors who wished to be reinstated but because of the law could not participate, Zedler said in a hearing held...