The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (TX DWC) states on its website, “We’ve made Texas workers’ comp better for doctors.” In our experience, these are more than just words.

The agency routinely demonstrates a commitment to walking the walk, from its resource-rich website to its regular live online training and Q&A sessions. Clearly, the agency’s mission is to enable injured workers to access the care they need as quickly as possible from willing providers.

Now, the TX DWC wants to know precisely what these providers think the Texas state legislature should do to improve the workers’ comp system. All Texas providers are invited to complete an online survey (or email a form) and share their suggestions.

In other words, the TX DWC genuinely seeks substantive ideas from the providers who treat injured workers to guide legislators. Compare the Texas approach, where doctors are a clear priority, to the approach in California, where the profits of claims administrators and their private equity owners seem to be the only real priority.

The TX DWC plans to consider providers’ suggestions in its upcoming biennial report to the legislature, and potentially advocate for providers’ ideas during the 89th legislative session. Details below!

TX DWC Provider Suggestions Wanted

In an email to providers, the TX DWC asks for legislative recommendations before compiling its 2024 biennial report to the Texas State Legislature.

Texas doctors treating injured workers, this is your opportunity to suggest ways to “help improve and more effectively manage the Texas workers’ comp system.”

By soliciting recommendations from doctors, the TX DWC is sending a crystal-clear signal: the providers on the front lines are the ones whose insights, opinions, and needs are the most critical to making the system function more effectively.

Contrast this with the apathy that characterizes the California DWC’s approach to improving (or, more accurately, making zero effort to improve) workers’ compensation—a strategy that barely acknowledges providers, let alone thinking of them as partners in pursuing beneficial change.

Texas providers can complete this online survey, which asks for details on:

• Issues with the system
• Potential solutions
• Relevant statutes or rules
• Potential benefits of proposed solutions
• Potential costs and savings of proposed solutions

As an alternative to the survey, providers may download this form and email it to to DWCExternalRelations@tdi.texas.gov. Whether in survey or on the form, the DWC requires all submissions to be submitted by July 31, 2024.

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