This meeting is to discuss issues related to the TDI's eBill companion guide and implementation concerns identified by stakeholders. Specific items to be discussed include:

• adding flexibility for the Electronic Transmitter Identification Number;

• adding a Pharmacy NCPDP 5.1 companion guide; and

• removing or clarifying non-standard segments or instructions.

Insurance carriers and health care providers will be asked for candid feedback on their progress to implement eBill transactional processing, including information on any potential barriers or problems that may impede or delay successful implementation.

TDI will provide conference call services for those stakeholders who cannot attend this meeting in person. The conference call is limited to the first 125 callers and may be accessed by calling: (877) 226-9790 and entering access code 9278155.

A memorandum concerning the stakeholder meeting is posted on the agency website at and can be found by clicking here.
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• proposals to encroach on our specialty’s scope of practice,

• constant attempts to dilute the medical liability reforms our entire profession fought so hard to get,

• and seemingly endless efforts to add to our tax burden.

Doing battle costs money.  Your contributions are critical.  Help make the Texas Orthopaedic Association a force to be reckoned with in the legislative process!  Click here for a printable donation form.

2007 Legislative Victories:

• Prevented debate on any bill that would expand the scope of practice for the podiatrists to work on the ankle.

• Passed legislation that contained critical adjustments to previous workers’ compensation reforms.
   
  • Doctors performing peer review, utilization review, and retrospective review in workers’ compensation cases must now be licensed in Texas.
  •  Providers of workers’ compensation health care services will not forfeit their right to reimbursement if the claim for payment is filed timely, but erroneously filed with the wrong insurer.
  •  A health care provider reviewing a workers’ compensation case must be certified in a specialty appropriate to the type of care an injured employee is receiving.
   

• Killed a Senate bill that would have eliminated the standard of willful and wanton negligence in liability claims arising out of emergency care. Had this provision been repealed, the result would have been a roll back of the hard won medical liability reforms.

• Protected income exemptions for Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, Worker’s Compensation, TriCare and uncompensated care in the tax bill.

Support TO-PAC today!  Click here for a printable donation form.  To contribute by credit card, please call 1-512-708-9053 or send your checks* to:

TO-PAC
Dr. Richard McKay, Treasurer
504 West 14th Street
Austin, Texas 78701

*(Personal check required if paying by check), PAC contributions are not tax deductible.
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