Source: https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=28&pt=2&ch=134&rl=600
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 22:29:03+00:00

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(1) Adverse determination: A determination by a utilization review agent made on behalf of a payor that the health care services provided or proposed to be provided to an injured employee are not medically necessary or appropriate. The term does not include a denial of health care services due to the failure to request prospective or concurrent utilization review. An adverse determination does not include a determination that health care services are experimental or investigational.
(2) Ambulatory surgical services: surgical services provided in a facility that operates primarily to provide surgical services to patients who do not require overnight hospital care.
(3) Concurrent utilization review: a form of utilization review for on-going health care listed in subsection (q) of this section for an extension of treatment beyond previously approved health care listed in subsection (p) of this section.
(4) Diagnostic study: any test used to help establish or exclude the presence of disease/injury in symptomatic individuals. The test may help determine the diagnosis, screen for specific disease/injury, guide the management of an established disease/injury, and formulate a prognosis.
(5) Final adjudication: the commissioner has issued a final decision or order that is no longer subject to appeal by either party.
(6) Outpatient surgical services: surgical services provided in a freestanding surgical center or a hospital outpatient department to patients who do not require overnight hospital care.
(7) Preauthorization: a form of prospective utilization review by a payor or a payor's utilization review agent of health care services proposed to be provided to an injured employee.
(C) prior to issuing a concurrent or post-stabilization review adverse determination.
(9) Requestor: the health care provider or designated representative, including office staff or a referral health care provider or health care facility that requests preauthorization, concurrent utilization review, or voluntary certification.
(10) Work conditioning and work hardening: return-to-work rehabilitation programs as defined in this chapter.
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(2) or per subsection (r) of this section when voluntary certification was requested and payment agreed upon prior to providing the health care for any health care not listed in subsection (p) of this section.
(d) The insurance carrier is not liable under subsection (c)(1)(B) or (C) of this section if there has been a final adjudication that the injury is not compensable or that the health care was provided for a condition unrelated to the compensable injury.
(e) The insurance carrier shall designate accessible direct telephone and facsimile numbers and may designate an electronic transmission address for use by the requestor or injured employee to request preauthorization or concurrent utilization review during normal business hours. The direct number shall be answered or the facsimile or electronic transmission address responded to within the time limits established in subsection (i) of this section. The insurance carrier shall also comply with any additional requirements of §19.2012 of this title (relating to URA's Telephone Access and Procedures for Certain Drug Requests and Post-Stabilization Care).
(9) estimated date of proposed health care.
(g) A health care provider may submit a request for health care to treat an injury or diagnosis that is not accepted by the insurance carrier in accordance with Labor Code §408.0042.
(1) The request shall be in the form of a treatment plan for a 60 day timeframe.
(2) The insurance carrier shall review requests submitted in accordance with this subsection for both medical necessity and relatedness.
(3) If denying the request, the insurance carrier shall indicate whether it is issuing an adverse determination, and/or whether the denial is based on an unrelated injury or diagnosis in accordance with subsection (m) of this section.
(4) The requestor or injured employee may file an extent of injury dispute upon receipt of an insurance carrier's response which includes a denial due to an unrelated injury or diagnosis, regardless of whether an adverse determination was also issued.
(5) Requests which include a denial due to an unrelated injury or diagnosis may not proceed to medical dispute resolution based on the denial of unrelatedness. However, requests which include the dispute of an adverse determination may proceed to medical dispute resolution for the issue of medical necessity in accordance with subsection (o) of this section.
(3) the fact that the injured employee has reached maximum medical improvement.
(2) three working days of receipt of a request for concurrent utilization review, except for health care listed in subsection (q)(1) of this section, which is due within one working day of the receipt of the request.
(3) requestor, if not previously sent by facsimile or electronic transmission.
(k) The insurance carrier's failure to comply with any timeframe requirements of this section shall result in an administrative violation.
(4) the insurance carrier's preauthorization approval number that conforms to the standards described in §19.2009(a)(4) of this title (relating to Notice of Determinations Made in Utilization Review).
(m) In accordance with §19.2010 of this title (relating to Requirements Prior to Issuing Adverse Determination), the insurance carrier shall afford the requestor a reasonable opportunity to discuss the clinical basis for the adverse determination prior to issuing the adverse determination. The notice of adverse determination must comply with the requirements of §19.2009 of this title and if preauthorization is denied under Labor Code §408.0042 because the treatment is for an injury or diagnosis unrelated to the compensable injury the notice must include notification to the injured employee and health care provider of entitlement to file an extent of injury dispute in accordance with Chapter 141 of this title (relating to Dispute Resolution--Benefit Review Conference).
(n) The insurance carrier shall not condition an approval or change any elements of the request as listed in subsection (f) of this section, unless the condition or change is mutually agreed to by the health care provider and insurance carrier and is documented.
(o) If the initial response is an adverse determination of preauthorization or concurrent utilization review, the requestor or injured employee may request reconsideration orally or in writing. A request for reconsideration under this section constitutes an appeal for the purposes of §19.2011 of this title (relating to Written Procedures for Appeal of Adverse Determinations).
(1) The requestor or injured employee may within 30 days of receipt of a written adverse determination request the insurance carrier to reconsider the adverse determination and shall document the reconsideration request.
(B) within three working days of receipt of a request for reconsideration of an adverse determination of concurrent utilization review, except for health care listed in subsection (q)(1) of this section, which is due within one working day of the receipt of the request.
(3) In addition to the requirements in this section and §19.2011 of this title, the insurance carrier's reconsideration procedures shall include a provision that the period during which the reconsideration is to be completed shall be based on the medical or clinical immediacy of the condition, procedure, or treatment.

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