STATE OF NEW YORK
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4345
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2017
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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] 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