Tony Mendoza
- Democratic
Author
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 authorizes an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to establish or modify a medical provider network for the provision of medical treatment to injured employees, and requires the administrative director to contract with individual physicians or an independent medical review organization to perform medical provider network independent medical reviews. Existing law provides that if a treatment or diagnostic service remains disputed after a 3rd physician's opinion, the injured employee may request a medical provider network independent medical review. Existing law requires the review to use standards established in statute or use the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines. This bill would delete the authorization to use the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines as standards for those independent medical reviews. The bill would make additional technical, nonsubstantive changes.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 84, Statutes of 2016.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5598.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 22).
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3460.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3420.) (April 6).
Set for hearing April 6.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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| SB914 | HTML |
| 01/26/16 - Introduced | |
| 07/05/16 - Enrolled | |
| 07/22/16 - Chaptered |
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