SB3886 - Tennessee: Medicine, Practice Of, Workers' Compensation

Companion Bill HB3848. Workers' Compensation - Imposes various requirements on contracting agents who sell, lease, assign, transfer, or convey their lists of contracted health care providers and their contracted reimbursement rate; applies under the Workers' Compensation Law. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-204. Fiscal Summary for *SB3886 / HB3848MINIMAL Bill Summary for *SB3886 / HB3848 Present law authorizes the commissioner of labor and workforce development to establish a medical fee schedule for medical services that are provided through the workers' compensation system. The comprehensive medical fee schedule does not prohibit an employer, trust or pool, or insurer from negotiating lower fees in its own medical fee agreements. This bill requires that any lower fees paid for medical services furnished on or after January 1, 2009, must be [...]

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