TEXAS BILLING FACTS · NURSE CASE MANAGERS SUPPORTED TODAY

Texas workers’ comp case management billing —
and the 95-day rule.

Texas gives you 95 days to file. Not a year, not 120 days — 95, and Texas Mutual and the carriers will not stretch it. Private vocational rehabilitation is carrier-optional under §408.150, which is why nurse case management is the work that runs every week here.

No card. No contract. Your data stays on your computer.
Texas Department of Insurance — Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC)

The facts, before the pitch.

How billing works in Texas

Who you bill
The carrier or TPA.
What you send
CMS-1500 or invoice.
The channel
E-billing both directions since 2008.
Fee basis
No published rate we have verified. Ask the Texas Department of Insurance — Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) before anyone quotes you one — including us.
The clock
95-day timely filing.

The system. Carrier-optional private vocational rehabilitation alongside Texas Workforce Commission referrals.

Where the rules are written. Texas Labor Code §408.150; 28 TAC 133.500 and 133.20.

Electronic billing. Providers must e-bill; payers must accept. Direct electronic submission is on our roadmap and is not something we ship today: Med Claims Pro builds the bill, the report packet and the receivable, and files your proof of what left — you send it through the channel the Texas Department of Insurance — Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) gives you.

Nurse case managers in Texas are supported today. Invoice-based case-management billing needs no state pack — it works here now. Private vocational rehabilitation in Texas is a different story, told plainly further down, and there is a Texas voc-rehab list you can join.

Your week

Your week, in Texas’s documents.

The tightest timely-filing clock in the country, on a caseload spread across counties the size of small states.

  • 7:40 a.m.
    Two telephonic updates and a note to the adjuster.Entered as they finish. A bill you can send this week is a bill that beats the clock by 88 days.
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Appointment attended in the next county. Wait time, then 74 miles back.Miles and wait time as their own lines, priced as you type.
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Monthly report for the TPA.Built from the entries, in your template, without a reconstruction session.
  • 4:50 p.m.
    This week’s billing out. Nothing waiting for a Sunday.Every bill becomes a receivable with a filing date attached, and the clock is visible rather than assumed.
The receivables screen: ten bills, one payer check covering four claimants, one short-pay flagged, $674.07 still owed.
One check, four claimants, one short-pay caught at $16.14, $674.07 still owed. Invented names, real workflow — and the same screen whether you invoice a TPA in Texas or an MCO in Ohio.

Every one of those rows is typed once, as it happens. The daily log writes itself as you go, the weekly narrative log builds in your own Word template, the invoice fills with the right units and the right payer block, and the receivable exists the moment the bill leaves. The whole chain →

The clock

Ninety-five days is not a deadline. It is a habit you either have or do not.

Under 28 TAC 133.20 you have 95 days from the date of service. A bill that sits in a pile for six weeks and then waits on a report you have not written yet is a bill with three weeks of margin left, and no margin at all if anything comes back for correction.

The cure is not a reminder. It is that the bill already exists: the work was entered as it happened, the report is built from the same entries, and sending is a Friday task rather than a project.

Texas has required electronic billing in both directions since 2008. We do not do that yet — the software builds the bill, the documentation and the receivable and files your proof; direct submission is on our roadmap.

The payer directory

Who pays you in Texas.

Texas Mutual is the largest single carrier here, with the national carriers and TPAs behind it. Everything runs on a 95-day clock, which makes payer aging less about politeness and more about survival.

Texas payers

  • Texas Mutual
  • Private carriers
  • TPAs

National carriers you will meet

  • Travelers
  • The Hartford
  • AmTrust
  • Zurich
  • Chubb
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Liberty Mutual
  • AF Group / Accident Fund
  • Old Republic
  • Great American

TPAs that send the referrals

  • Sedgwick
  • Gallagher Bassett
  • ESIS
  • Helmsman
  • Broadspire
  • CorVel
  • TRISTAR
  • CCMSI
  • Athens Administrators

One check, many claimants. Whichever of these names is on the envelope, the check covers a dozen files at once. You record it once, tick the bills it pays, and anything short is flagged with the exact gap and the original form attached, ready to rebill. How that screen works.

Payer fax numbers and billing addresses go stale faster than any page can keep up, so we publish them only where we keep them current — today that is Ohio’s nine MCOs. Your Texas payers, their submission addresses and their quirks get set up during onboarding, from your own files.

What is genuinely for sale here today

Case files, adjusters, mileage, invoices.

Invoice-based case-management billing works in Texas today with no state pack: the activity grid, the itemised invoice in the format the payer asks for, and aging by TPA so a slow payer shows up as a number.

The activity grid

Field visit, telephonic call, wait time at the appointment, the miles there and back — logged once, with the claim number, the adjuster and the referral source attached as you type.

The itemised invoice

In the format the payer asks for, from the same entries, with the activity log behind it. No CMS-1500 unless your payer wants one — and some do.

Aging by payer

Texas Mutual, the carriers and the TPAs, each with billed, paid and still-owed, and an aging list that names who is sitting on your money.

It is the same week Dana works in Ohio with different nouns: case files instead of claimants, adjusters instead of MCO coordinators, billable hours and mileage instead of W-codes. The nurse case manager page has the whole workflow.

Texas resources

Where the rules actually live.

Ask the Texas Department of Insurance — Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) for

  • the current text of Texas Labor Code §408.150; 28 TAC 133.500 and 133.20

We have not published a verified link set for Texas yet, and we would rather send you nowhere than somewhere out of date. If you have the current documents, send them over — admin@onservice.us.

How we keep this page honest

Every fact above is transcribed from the Texas Department of Insurance — Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) or the statute named, dated July 2026, and reviewed when the agency republishes. Where we have not verified something we say so rather than filling the gap.

Found something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it the same week: 1-877-843-1717 or admin@onservice.us.

Texas · what is real today

See a Texas case-management caseload run itself.

Fifteen minutes, a case-management caseload on screen, and an honest answer about what Texas voc rehab would need. Or join the Texas voc-rehab list and we will write to you when there is something real to show.

There is a phone number and a person answers it: 1-877-843-1717.

States that work like Texas

All 50 states and the District of Columbia →

Questions, answered.

What is the 95-day rule?

Texas requires bills to be filed within 95 days of the date of service under 28 TAC 133.20 — the tightest timely-filing clock of any state we have researched. Current as of July 2026; verify with the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation.

Is there private vocational rehabilitation in Texas?

It is carrier-optional under §408.150, alongside Texas Workforce Commission referrals, which means it exists but does not support a dependable private billing market. Nurse case management does.

Texas requires e-billing both directions. Do you submit?

No, and we will not describe it as shipped. We build the bill, the packet and the receivable and file your proof of what was sent. Direct electronic submission is on our roadmap.

Does it track the filing clock?

Every bill carries its date of service and its send date, and aging runs from the day it left. What actually protects you is that the bill leaves the same week as the work, which is what the grid is for.

Where does my data live?

On your computer. Cancel and the software goes read-only; nothing is deleted and everything exports.

See your own week run itself.

Fifteen minutes, your state’s codes on screen — or start the trial and poke around on your own.

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