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Assembly Bill A6992

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to seeking medical treatment from outside the preferred provider organization

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2015-A6992 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5526
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง354, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A5993, S4345

2015-A6992 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to seeking medical treatment from outside the preferred provider organization.

2015-A6992 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6992

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 16, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Labor

AN  ACT  to  amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to seeking
  medical treatment from outside the preferred provider organization

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 354 of the workers' compensation
law, as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read  as
follows:
  2.  An  employee may seek medical treatment from outside the preferred
provider organization [thirty] NINETY days after his or her first  visit
to  a  preferred  provider organization provider. In the event that such
employee seeks medical treatment outside the preferred  provider  organ-
ization the employer may require a second opinion from a provider within
the preferred provider organization.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08486-01-5

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