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Amend CSHB 7:                                                                
	(1)  on page 127, between lines 25 and 26, by inserting the 
following:       
	"(c) If an accident or health insurance carrier or other 
person obligated for the cost of health care services has paid for 
health care services for an employee for an injury for which a 
workers' compensation insurance carrier denies compensability, and 
the injury is later determined to be compensable, the accident or 
health insurance carrier or other person may recover the amounts 
paid for such services from the workers' compensation insurance 
carrier."
	(2)  On page 154, between lines 19 and 20, insert the 
following:             
	"(f) If the carrier contests compensability of an injury and 
the injury is determined not to be compensable, the carrier may 
recover the amounts paid for health care services from the 
employee's accident or health carrier or any other person who may be 
obligated for the cost of the health services.
	(g)  If an accident or health insurance carrier or other 
person obligated for the cost of health care services has paid for 
health care services for an employee for an injury for which a 
workers' compensation insurance carrier denies compensability, and 
the injury is later determined to be compensable, the accident or 
health insurance carrier or other person may recover the amounts 
paid for such services from the workers' compensation insurance 
carrier."