CHAPTER 79
HB 1326 - FINAL VERSION
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1326
AN ACT relative to managed care programs under workers' compensation.
SPONSORS: Rep. M. Fuller Clark, Rock 36; Sen. Fraser, Dist 4
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
This bill requires a managed care program under workers' compensation to maintain a business office in New Hampshire and to have a sufficient number of resident injury management facilitators.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2534
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to managed care programs under workers' compensation.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
79:1 New Subparagraph; Business Office in New Hampshire Required. Amend RSA 281-A:23-a, I by inserting after subparagraph (f) the following new subparagraph:
(g) The program maintains a business office in New Hampshire for its staff of resident injury management facilitators, case managers, and rehabilitation managers.
79:2 Resident Injury Management Facilitators Required. 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 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.
79:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
(Approved: April 21, 2000)
(Effective Date: June 20, 2000)