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215:1 Workers' Compensation; Managed Care Programs. Amend RSA 281-A:23-a, V to read as follows:
V. Every managed care program shall include a sufficient number of injury management facilitators, including resident injury management facilitators, who shall be qualified by reason of education, training, and experience to manage the injured employee's medical, hospital and remedial care, vocational rehabilitation, modified duty, and return to work plans. An injury management facilitator shall work with the injured employee, employer, and medical, hospital and other providers to ensure that the injured employee receives effective, timely, and appropriate services in order to achieve maximum medical improvement and an expeditious return to work. Any person employed as an injury management facilitator by a managed care program or operating as an injury management facilitator by in conjunction with a managed care program under this section shall be approved by the commissioner with ratification by the workers' compensation advisory council. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the advisory council, by rule determine the number of facilitators which shall be sufficient.
215:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.
Approved: June 08, 2018
Effective Date: January 01, 2019
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215:1 Workers' Compensation; Managed Care Programs. Amend RSA 281-A:23-a, V to read as follows:
V. Every managed care program shall include a sufficient number of injury management facilitators, including resident injury management facilitators, who shall be qualified by reason of education, training, and experience to manage the injured employee's medical, hospital and remedial care, vocational rehabilitation, modified duty, and return to work plans. An injury management facilitator shall work with the injured employee, employer, and medical, hospital and other providers to ensure that the injured employee receives effective, timely, and appropriate services in order to achieve maximum medical improvement and an expeditious return to work. Any person employed as an injury management facilitator by a managed care program or operating as an injury management facilitator in conjunction with a managed care program under this section shall be approved by the commissioner with ratification by the workers' compensation advisory council. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the advisory council, by rule determine the number of facilitators which shall be sufficient.
215:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.
Approved: June 08, 2018
Effective Date: January 01, 2019