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House Bill 251 |
House Author: Eissler |
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Effective: 6-18-05 |
Senate Sponsor: Williams |
House Bill 251 amends the Labor Code provision allowing the release of workers' compensation claim information to an insurance carrier that has adopted an antifraud plan and that seeks to identify valid subclaims. The bill allows such a carrier and its authorized representative to request full claims data in an electronic data format on all cases related to the workers' compensation claimants listed as insureds of the requesting carrier, and it requires the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission to produce the records monthly. The carrier is not required to demonstrate that a subclaim exists in order to obtain the information. The commission is authorized to charge a fee not to exceed five cents for each claimant listed in an information request, and it is prohibited from redacting claims records produced for the request. The bill requires the carrier and the commission to execute a written agreement prior to the carrier's first request. It specifies certain time frames relating to the release of an autopsy report in relation to a workers' compensation claim.