HB 1370 – AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
11Mar2010… 0704h
2010 SESSION
01/04
HOUSE BILL 1370
AN ACT requiring independent medical examination practitioners to file a report with the insurance department.
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
This bill requires health care providers performing 10 or more independent examinations per year to file a report with the insurance department.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
11Mar2010… 0704h
10-2434
01/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT requiring independent medical examination practitioners to file a report with the insurance department.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Workers’ Compensation; Medical Examinations. Amend RSA 281-A:38 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
III. Any health care provider who performs 10 or more independent medical examinations in a calendar year under this chapter shall file an annual report by January 31 for the preceding year with the labor commissioner. All reports shall be made available to the public. The commissioner may suspend the health care provider from performing independent medical examinations until said annual report is filed. The commissioner shall develop a form on which health care providers shall report, at a minimum, the following information for each examination performed:
(a) The person or entity who hired the provider, including the name of the insurance carrier if applicable.
(b) The total amount that the provider was paid for each examination and for each report.
(c) Whether the finding on the causation of injury to the work-related injury or illness was for the claimant or the insurance carrier/employer.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011.