By Giddings H.B. No. 3758
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the approval of doctors who provide medical treatment.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 408.023, Labor Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (a) Each doctor licensed in this state on January 1, 1993,
1-8 is on the commission's list of approved doctors unless subsequently
1-9 deleted and not reinstated. Each doctor who performs services
1-10 under this subtitle and commission rules, including required
1-11 medical examinations under Section 408.004 and medical utilization
1-12 review evaluations for insurance carriers, is required to be on the
1-13 commission's list of approved doctors to perform the service or to
1-14 receive payment for services. The name of a doctor shall be placed
1-15 on the list of approved doctors when that doctor becomes licensed
1-16 in this state. A doctor not licensed in this state but licensed in
1-17 another state or jurisdiction who treats employees or performs
1-18 services under this subtitle may not [apply to the commission to]
1-19 be included on the list, except that the commission may grant an
1-20 exception to this requirement to ensure that employees who do not
1-21 reside in this state have access to medical care and to allow the
1-22 commission to perform necessary review functions.
1-23 (c) A doctor may apply in writing to the commission to have
1-24 the doctor's name removed from the commission's list of approved
2-1 doctors. A doctor whose name is deleted on request may apply for
2-2 reinstatement.
2-3 (d) The commission shall establish procedures for a doctor
2-4 to apply for reinstatement to the list.
2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.