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145.021 Insurance Recoupment

145.021

Insurance Recoupment: The Texas Medical Association advocates a Texas Department of Insurance rule that limits the time for insurance company audits and recovery attempts, and that this time period, beginning with the date the claim is received, be the same as the time that a physician has for filing the claim (Res. 404-A-03; reaffirmed CSE Rep. 1-A-13).

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October 07, 2016

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 The website for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is blunt: “History shows that severe illness and death rates tend to be higher for racial and ethnic minority populations during public health emergencies than for other populations.” That is certainly happening with COVID-19. Emerging data already show that long-standing social determinants of health are stacked against Blacks and Hispanics in Texas, in some cases prompting a stronger call for value-based care, among other tools, so physicians can better help people of color cope with the health inequities brought on by COVID-19.

 

 

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