Bill Text: CA SB959 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Workers' compensation: provider reimbursement:

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-30 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Charles Calderon. [SB959 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB959-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 959	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 17, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 9, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 15, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Huff
  ) 

                        JANUARY 10, 2012

   An act to repeal Section 5318 of the Labor Code, relating to
workers' compensation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 959, as amended, Lieu. Workers' compensation: provider
reimbursement: implantable medical devices, hardware, and
instrumentation.
   Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system,
administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of
Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries
sustained in the course of his or her employment.
   Existing law requires the administrative director, after public
hearings, to adopt and revise periodically an official medical fee
schedule to establish reasonable maximum fees paid for medical
services, drugs and pharmacy services, health care facility fees,
home health care, and all other treatment, care, services, and goods,
other than physician services. Existing law separately requires
reimbursement for certain implantable medical devices, hardware, and
instrumentation, at the provider's documented paid cost, plus an
additional 10%, plus sales tax, as specified. Under existing law,
this reimbursement formula is operative only until the administrative
director adopts a regulation specifying reimbursement for the
designated items, as prescribed.
   This bill would delete the above-described reimbursement
specifications relating to implantable medical devices, hardware, and
instrumentation.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 5318 of the Labor Code  , as added by
Section 44 of Chapter 639 of the Statutes of 2003,  is
repealed.