DWC Extends Comment Period on Work-Status Report Rules

The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation has extended the deadline for public comments on rules that would govern how nurse practitioners can sign off on work-status reports. The rules were required by House Bill 387, which was signed into law this year. The law allows treating physicians to delegate to advanced-practice nurses the authority to complete, sign and file the status reports, the DWC said in a bulletin. The law took effect Sept. 1, but the rules would fill in the blanks and cover how a treating doctor would still be responsible for the actions of the nurse, and other i...