Supreme Court of Texas

Plaintiff complied with the statutory requisites for promulgating the fee guidelines and acted within its designated powers in limiting specified medical fee reimbursements and the time to seek medical dispute resolution, and the Dispute and Audit Rules do not constitute a delegation of plaintiff's audit or fee-setting powers.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/28/2004
• Published 05/28/2004

Judges

• Justice WAINWRIGHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice O'NEILL, Justice JEFFERSON, Justice SCHNEIDER, Justice SMITH, and Justice BRISTER joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas S. Leatherbury,Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Dallas, P.M. Schenkkan, Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, P.C., Austin, T. Daniel Hollaway, Hollaway & Gumbert, Houston, Phyllis B. Schunck, Clark Thomas & Winters, Austin, for Amicus Curiae., Greg Abbott, Atty. Gen., Howard G. Baldwin, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Jeffrey S. Boyd, Thompson & Knight, Dewey E. Helmcamp III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Barry Ross McBee, Office of Atty. Gen., and Don Walker, Office of Atty. Gen., Austin, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Aleshire, M.D. Jennifer S. Riggs, Riggs & Aleshire, P.C., Austin, for Respondent.