The New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration is proposing new rules that would require payers to accept electronic medical bills beginning in 2014, as well as changes to the payment of attorney fees, rules governing mediations and travel reimbursement for injured workers.The administration is proposing adding language to its rules governing billing procedures that would require payers be capable of receiving and paying bills electronically, “pursuant to a system generally recognized and used in the medical community.” The proposed rule would take effect Jan. 1, 2014.If...
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