Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-202 (2026)
Electronic submission and processing of medical bills
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) On or after July 1, 2014, the administrator, in cooperation with the commissioner of commerce and insurance, shall adopt rules regarding the electronic submission and processing of medical bills by health care providers to insurance carriers.
- (b) Insurance carriers shall accept medical bills submitted electronically by health care providers in accordance with the administrator's rules.
- (c) The administrator shall establish by rule the criteria for granting exceptions to insurance carriers and health care providers who are unable to submit or accept medical bills electronically.
Acts 1919, ch. 123, § 23; Shan. Supp., § 3608a172; Code 1932, § 6873; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 50-1002; Acts 2013, ch. 289, § 30.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1987–2023 · leading case: Lon Cloyd v. Hartco Flooring Co., 274 S.W.3d 638 (Tenn. 2008).
Lon Cloyd v. Hartco Flooring Co., 274 S.W.3d 638 (Tenn. 2008). “Section 50-6-203 provided as follows: -7- The right to compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Law shall be forever barred, unless, within one (1) year after the accident resulting in injury or death occurred, the notice required by § 50-6-202 is given employer and a claim…”
Dye v. Witco Corp., 216 S.W.3d 317 (Tenn. 2007). “Tennessee Code Annotated section 50-6-203(a) (1999) provides: The right to compensation under the Workers' Compensation Law shall be forever barred, unless, within one (1) year after the accident resulting in injury or death occurred, the notice required by § 50-6-202 is given…”
Clarendon v. Baptist Mem'l Hosp., 796 S.W.2d 685 (Tenn. 1990). “T.C.A. § 50-6-202(a)(2). Equitable treatment has also been applied to a defect in the actual knowledge of the employer.”
Livingston v. Shelby Williams Indus., Inc., 811 S.W.2d 511 (Tenn. 1991). “§ 50-6-203, which provides: The right to compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Law shall be forever barred, unless within one (1) year after the accident resulting in injury or death occurred the notice required by § 50-6-202 is given the employer and a claim for…”
Hawkins v. Consol. Aluminum Corp., 742 S.W.2d 253 (Tenn. 1987). “§ 50-6-201 and § 50-6-202. The cause of action here asserted arose prior to July 1, 1985, the date on which T.”
Carpenter v. State, 838 S.W.2d 525 (Tenn. 1992). “— The right to compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Law shall be forever barred, unless within one (1) year after the accident resulting in injury or death occurred the notice required by § 50-6-202 is given the employer and a claim for compensation under the provisions…”
Ogden v. Matrix Vision of Williamson Cnty., Inc., 838 S.W.2d 528 (Tenn. 1992). “— The right to compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Law shall be forever barred, unless within one (1) year after the accident resulting in injury or death occurred the notice required by § 50-6-202 is given the employer and a claim for compensation under the provisions…”
Barnett v. Earthworks Unlimited, Inc., 197 S.W.3d 716 (Tenn. 2006). “nd actions brought under the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Law is controlled by Tennessee Code Annotated section 50-6-203(a) which provided, prior to the 2004 amendment, as follows: The right to compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Law shall be forever barred, unless,…”
Puckett v. N.A.P. Consum. Elec. Corp., 725 S.W.2d 674 (Tenn. 1987). “§ 50-6-201 and § 50-6-202.” Explicit in the trial court’s finding was that Plaintiff had not given actual or written notice of her injuries within the thirty-day period required in T.”
Moon v. Auto-Owners Ins. Co., 736 S.W.2d 92 (Tenn. 1987). “T.C.A. § 50-6-202, requires that notice of the accident and injury be given to the employer or to “his agent.”
Ernstes, Arlene v. Printpack, Inc., 2023 TN WC App. 23 (Tenn. Work. Comp. App. Bd. 2023). “provides that the workers’ compensation statutes “shall not be remedially or liberally construed but shall be construed fairly, impartially, and in accordance with basic principles of statutory 5 It is significant to note that from 2001 until the Reform Act was passed in 2013,…”
Dial v. State, 796 S.W.2d 143 (Tenn. 1990). “§ 50-6-203 reads as follows: The right to compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Law shall be forever barred, unless within one (1) year after the accident resulting in injury or death occurred the notice required by § 50-6-202 is given the employer and a claim for…”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-202(a)(1): 1 case
Ernstes, Arlene v. Printpack, Inc., 2023 TN WC App. 23 (Tenn. Work. Comp. App. Bd. 2023). “provides that the workers’ compensation statutes “shall not be remedially or liberally construed but shall be construed fairly, impartially, and in accordance with basic principles of statutory 5 It is significant to note that from 2001 until the Reform Act was passed in 2013,…”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-202(a)(2): 2 cases
Clarendon v. Baptist Mem'l Hosp., 796 S.W.2d 685 (Tenn. 1990). “T.C.A. § 50-6-202(a)(2). Equitable treatment has also been applied to a defect in the actual knowledge of the employer.”
Ernstes, Arlene v. Printpack, Inc., 2023 TN WC App. 23 (Tenn. Work. Comp. App. Bd. 2023). “provides that the workers’ compensation statutes “shall not be remedially or liberally construed but shall be construed fairly, impartially, and in accordance with basic principles of statutory 5 It is significant to note that from 2001 until the Reform Act was passed in 2013,…”
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