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2021 Texas Statutes
Labor Code
Title 5 - Workers' Compensation
Subtitle A - Texas Workers' Compensation Act
Chapter 413 - Medical Review
Subchapter E. Implementation of Commission Powers and Duties
Section 413.05121. Quality Assurance Panel

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TX Lab Code § 413.05121 (2021)
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Sec. 413.05121. QUALITY ASSURANCE PANEL. (a) The medical advisor shall establish the quality assurance panel within the medical quality review panel to:

(1) provide an additional level of evaluation in medical case reviews; and

(2) assist the medical advisor in performing the advisor's duties under Section 413.0511(b)(6) and the medical quality review panel in performing that panel's duties under Section 413.0512.

(b) Members of the quality assurance panel shall evaluate medical care and recommend enforcement actions to the medical advisor.

(c) The quality assurance panel shall meet periodically to discuss issues and otherwise offer assistance to the medical advisor and the medical quality review panel under Subsection (a)(2).

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1162 (H.B. 2605), Sec. 24, eff. September 1, 2011.

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