Legislation
SECTION 351
Preferred provider organizations; contracts
Workers' Compensation (WKC) CHAPTER 67, ARTICLE 10-A
§ 351. Preferred provider organizations; contracts. The state
insurance fund, any stock corporation, mutual corporation or reciprocal
insurer authorized to transact the business of workers' compensation
insurance in this state or self-insurer may contract with a preferred
provider organization to deliver all medical services mandated by this
chapter, provided such contract takes effect on or after January first,
nineteen hundred ninety-seven and the insurer or the employer has no
financial interest in the preferred provider organization. Where there
is a duty to collectively bargain, an employer shall collectively
bargain the use and implementation of a preferred provider organization
with the authorized collective bargaining agent of its employees.
insurance fund, any stock corporation, mutual corporation or reciprocal
insurer authorized to transact the business of workers' compensation
insurance in this state or self-insurer may contract with a preferred
provider organization to deliver all medical services mandated by this
chapter, provided such contract takes effect on or after January first,
nineteen hundred ninety-seven and the insurer or the employer has no
financial interest in the preferred provider organization. Where there
is a duty to collectively bargain, an employer shall collectively
bargain the use and implementation of a preferred provider organization
with the authorized collective bargaining agent of its employees.