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By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1815
(In the Senate - Filed March 23, 2005; April 4, 2005, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 21, 2005, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 21, 2005,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1815 By: Armbrister
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to reimbursement under the workers' compensation system
for certain surgical assistants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 408, Labor Code, is
amended by adding Section 408.0295 to read as follows:
Sec. 408.0295. SURGICAL ASSISTANT SERVICES. (a) An
insurance carrier may not refuse to reimburse a health care
practitioner solely because the practitioner is a surgical
assistant licensed under Chapter 206, Occupations Code, for a
covered service that a physician providing health care services
under this subtitle has requested the surgical assistant to
perform.
(b) A surgical assistant described by this section shall be
reimbursed on the same basis as a physician assistant, nurse
practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist who functions as a first
assistant in surgery.
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a claim for workers'
compensation benefits based on a compensable injury that occurs on
or after the effective date of this Act. A claim based on a
compensable injury that occurs before that date is governed by the
law in effect on the date that the compensable injury occurred, and
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
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