Bill Text: NY S05526 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to seeking medical treatment from outside the preferred provider organization.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S05526 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05526-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5526
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 14, 2015
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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] NINETY days after his or her first visit
6 to a preferred provider organization provider. In the event that such
7 employee seeks medical treatment outside the preferred provider organ-
8 ization the employer may require a second opinion from a provider within
9 the preferred provider organization.
10 S 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.
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