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Senate Bill S4345

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to seeking medical treatment from outside the preferred provider organization

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2017-S4345 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5993
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §354, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S5526, A6992

2017-S4345 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S4345 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4345 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4345
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee 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] ONE HUNDRED TWENTY 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 provid-
 er organization the employer may require a second opinion from a provid-
 er within the preferred provider organization.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD07662-02-7

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