Bill Text: NY S04345 | 2017-2018 | 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) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S04345 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04345-Introduced.html
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
