TDI Posts Informal Draft of Revised IRO Rules

The Texas Department of Insurance has posted an informal draft including revisions to its rules relating to Independent Review Organizations, which review adverse determinations made by workers’ compensation health care networks and insurance carriers. Trey Gillespie, senior workers’ compensation director of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, said the revisions to the IRO rules are an attempt to implement measures codified by House Bill 2645 in 2013, which was concerned with making sure each IRO is actually independent. Both House Bill 2645 and the revised rule...