Texas § IN.843.255 - COMPOSITION OF COMPLAINT APPEAL PANEL
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§ IN.843.255. COMPOSITION OF COMPLAINT APPEAL PANEL
COMPOSITION OF COMPLAINT APPEAL PANEL. (a) A health maintenance organization shall appoint members to a complaint appeal panel to advise the health maintenance organization on the resolution of a disputed decision appealed by a complainant. (b) A complaint appeal panel shall be composed of an equal number of health maintenance organization staff members, physicians or other providers, and enrollees. A member of a complaint appeal panel may not have been previously involved in the disputed decision. (c) The physicians or other providers on a complaint appeal panel must have experience in the area of care that is in dispute and must be independent of any physician or provider who made any previous determination. If specialty care is in dispute, the complaint appeal panel must include a person who is a specialist in the field of care to which the appeal relates. (d) The enrollee members of a complaint appeal panel may not be employees of the health maintenance organization. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
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