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S04345 Summary:

BILL NO	S04345
SAME AS	SAME AS A05993
SPONSOR	AMEDORE
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd §354, Work Comp L
Relates to seeking medical treatment from outside the preferred provider organization.

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S04345 Actions:

BILL NO	S04345
02/10/2017	REFERRED TO LABOR
01/03/2018	REFERRED TO LABOR

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S04345 Committee Votes:

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S04345 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4345
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    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:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 354 of the  workers'  compensation
     2  law,  as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. An employee may seek medical treatment from outside  the  preferred
     5  provider  organization [thirty] one hundred twenty days after his or her
     6  first visit to a preferred provider organization provider. In the  event
     7  that such employee seeks medical treatment outside the preferred provid-
     8  er organization the employer may require a second opinion from a provid-
     9  er within the preferred provider organization.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  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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