Bill Text: TX SB935 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement of federal military treatment facilities under the workers' compensation system.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB935 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB935-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 935 |
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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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 935 passed the Senate on | ||
March 27, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 935 passed the House on | ||
May 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |