Revision: March 9, 2018, 2:09 p.m.
SB 351 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
03/08/2018 0975s
2018 SESSION
18-2759
01/04
SENATE BILL 351
AN ACT relative to managed care programs under workers' compensation.
SPONSORS: Sen. Innis, Dist 24; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Rep. Packard, Rock. 5; Rep. Hinch, Hills. 21
COMMITTEE: Commerce
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill clarifies the qualifications of an injury management facilitator affiliated with manged care programs under workers' compensation.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/08/2018 0975s 18-2759
01/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT relative to managed care programs under workers' compensation.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
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] 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.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.