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2014 SESSION
HB 1083 Workers' compensation; cost and payment for medical services, claims filed with Commission, etc.
Introduced by: R. Lee Ware, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Workers' compensation; payment for medical services. Limits the liability of an employer for medical treatment provided to an injured person that is rendered by a nurse practitioner or physician assistant serving as an assistant-at surgery to no more than 20 percent of the reimbursement due to the physician performing the surgery and the liability for treatment provided by an assistant surgeon in the same specialty as the primary surgeon to no more than 50 percent of the reimbursement due to the physician performing the surgery. The measure requires multiple procedures completed on a single surgical site associated with medical, surgical, and hospital services rendered on or after July 1, 2014, to be coded and billed with appropriate Current Procedural Terminology modifiers and paid according to the National Correct Coding Initiative rules and hospital in-patient care to be coded and billed through the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. The measure also (i) establishes prompt payment requirements with respect to health care services provided under the Workers' Compensation Act; (ii) prohibits an employer or insurer from seeking recovery of a payment made to a health care provider for health care services rendered after July 1, 2014, absent fraud, unless recovery is sought less than one year from the date payment was made; (iii) prohibits a health care provider from submitting a claim to the Workers' Compensation Commission contesting the sufficiency of payment for health care services rendered to a claimant on or after July 1, 2014, unless such claim is filed within one year from the date the last payment is received by the provider or the date the medical award for a specific item or treatment that is denied or contested by the employer becomes final; (iv) provides that health care providers located outside of the Commonwealth shall be reimbursed according to these prompt payment and claims limitations and the "same community" shall be deemed the principal place of business of the employer if located in the Commonwealth or, if no such location exists, the location where the Commission hearing regarding the dispute is conducted; and (v) clarifies the application of the balance billing prohibition.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/14 House: Presented and ordered printed 14103623D pdf | impact statement
- 02/06/14 House: Committee substitute printed 14104776D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/03/14 Senate: Committee substitute printed 14105308D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/14 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1083ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/06/14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/09/14 House: Presented and ordered printed 14103623D
- 01/09/14 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/15/14 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Workers Comp
- 02/04/14 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/14 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/14 House: Committee substitute printed 14104776D-H1
- 02/08/14 House: Read first time
- 02/10/14 House: Read second time
- 02/10/14 House: Committee substitute agreed to 14104776D-H1
- 02/10/14 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1083H1
- 02/11/14 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/14 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/14 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/12/14 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/21/14 Senate: Assigned C&L sub: Worker's Compensation
- 03/03/14 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/14 Senate: Committee substitute printed 14105308D-S1
- 03/04/14 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/14 Senate: Read third time
- 03/05/14 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 03/05/14 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 14105308D-S1
- 03/05/14 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1083S1
- 03/05/14 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/14 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/06/14 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 14105308D-S1 (100-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/14 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/14 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/14 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1083ER)
- 03/07/14 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/14 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/06/14 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 670 (effective 7/1/14)
- 04/06/14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670)