Stakeholders Seek Dispute-Resolution Rules Changes

Stakeholders want the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation to attack possible provider "gaming" in the division's formal version of rules on medical dispute-resolution procedures and contested case hearings. The rules are to implement legislation passed earlier this year. Comments received on the informal version of the rules indicate carriers remain worried over "unbundling" of charges for services to injured workers in order to have disputes dealt with at a contested case hearing (CCH) at the division level rather than sending the controversy to the State Office of Administrative He...