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18 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to labor
- Recommitted to rules
- Restored to third reading
- Substitution reconsidered
- Substituted by A6294
- Ordered to third reading cal.1461
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to labor
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Relates to application of guidelines for medical treatment for injured workers
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Keith L.T. Wright
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S3741
Title of bill
An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to application of guidelines for medical treatment for injured workers
Purpose
To ensure that Medical Treatment Guidelines adopted by the Worker's Compensation Board in 2010 will no longer be applied retroactively.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of Subdivision 5 of section 13-a of the worker's compensation law, as amended by chapter 6 of the laws of 2007, is amended to ensure that no guideline providing for medical treatment or rules or regulations shall be applied retroactively to cases with a date of accident of disablement that is prior to the date of such guideline, rule or regulation.
Justification
In 2010 the Workers Compensation Board adopted Medical Treatment guidelines and process regulations, which applied retroactively to all cases then in effect. As a result workers who had previously received a determination that they were entitled to specific treatments, would have their care limited. The guidelines as written have caused confusion in the medical community and disrupted the provision of needed medical care. Additionally, these guidelines appear to violate Worker's compensation law, section 13 (a) which guarantees an injured worker medical coverage for "such period as the nature of the injury of process of recovery may require." This bill would restore needed care, and a sense of fairness in those cases that predate the recent adoption of these medical treatment guidelines
Legislative history
This is a new bill.
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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