Bill Text: TX HB2207 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement of federal military treatment facilities under the workers' compensation system.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2207 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2207-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Shine, Cortez, Darby, Martinez Fischer | H.B. No. 2207 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2207: | |||
| By: Darby | C.S.H.B. No. 2207 | ||
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| relating to reimbursement of federal military treatment facilities | ||
| under the workers' compensation system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 413, Labor Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 413.0112 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 413.0112. REIMBURSEMENT OF FEDERAL MILITARY TREATMENT | ||
| FACILITY. (a) In this section, "federal military treatment | ||
| facility" means a medical facility that operates as part of the | ||
| Military Health System of the United States Department of Defense. | ||
| (b) The reimbursement rates for medical services provided | ||
| to an injured employee by a federal military treatment facility | ||
| must be the amount charged by the facility as determined under 32 | ||
| C.F.R. Part 220. | ||
| (c) Chapter 1305, Insurance Code, and the following | ||
| sections of this code do not apply to the reimbursement of a federal | ||
| military treatment facility's charges for medical services | ||
| provided to an injured employee: | ||
| (1) Sections 408.027(a) and (f); | ||
| (2) Section 408.0271; | ||
| (3) Section 408.0272; | ||
| (4) Section 408.028; | ||
| (5) Section 408.0281; | ||
| (6) Section 413.011; | ||
| (7) Section 413.014; | ||
| (8) Section 413.031, as that section relates to | ||
| medical fee disputes; | ||
| (9) Section 413.041; and | ||
| (10) Section 504.053. | ||
| (d) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
| implement this section, including rules establishing: | ||
| (1) requirements for processing medical bills for | ||
| services provided to an injured employee by a federal military | ||
| treatment facility; and | ||
| (2) a separate medical dispute resolution process to | ||
| resolve disputes over charges billed directly to an injured | ||
| employee by a federal military treatment facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. The commissioner of workers' compensation shall | ||
| adopt rules as required by Section 413.0112, Labor Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, not later than December 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to health care services provided on or after January 1, 2020, in | ||
| conjunction with a claim for workers' compensation benefits, | ||
| regardless of the date on which the compensable injury that is the | ||
| basis of the claim occurred. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
