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- Jurisdiction
- Texas; Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation · Texas
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Tex. Labor Code § 402.00111
- Issued
- 2021-01-29 Jan. 29, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-03-01 (lifting date) (read as 2021-03-01)
- End
- Supersedes the pharmacy and billing provisions of B-0010-20 as of March 1, 2021 (read as 2021-03-01)
- In force
- Mar. 1, 2021 to Mar. 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- all Texas workers' compensation system participants
- Functions reached
- IN workers' compensation carriers
- OF billing functions of health care providers (tolling ran Mar. 25, 2020 to Mar. 1, 2021)
- Collection
- State insurance and banking regulators AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING
Operative words
The bulletin required insurance carriers to authorize payments to pharmacies for up to a 90-day supply of any prescription medication and tolled (paused) medical billing deadlines. These specific requirements are no longer necessary, and the 90-day prescription requirement and the tolling of medical billing deadlines will be lifted effective March 1, 2021. The effect of lifting the tolling period means that the 'clock' for submitting a medical bill will resume 'ticking' on the effective date the tolling period is lifted. For example, if a medical service was provided on April 1, 2020, the 95-day billing deadline would begin to run on March 1, 2021
Enforcement
Notes
Fixes the end date of the B-0010-20 tolling: eleven months.