§ 13. Treatment and care of injured employees. (a) The employer shall promptly provide for an injured employee such medical, dental, surgical, optometric or other attendance or treatment, nurse and hospital service, medicine, optometric services, crutches, eye-glasses, false teeth, artificial eyes, orthotics, prosthetic devices, functional assistive and adaptive devices and apparatus for such period as […]
§ 13-a. Selection of authorized physician by employee. (1) An injured employee may, when care is required, select to treat him or her any physician authorized by the chair to render medical care, as hereafter provided. If for any reason during the period when medical treatment and care is required, the employee wishes to transfer […]
§ 13-aa. Medical appeals unit. 1. There is hereby created a medical appeals unit. Such medical appeals unit shall consist of three physicians licensed to practice in this state and known to represent the schools of medical practice eligible to practice under this chapter. The members of the medical appeals units shall be appointed by […]
§ 13-b. Authorization of providers, medical bureaus and laboratories by the chair. 1. No person shall render medical care or conduct independent medical examinations under this chapter without such authorization by the chair. As used in this title, the following definitions shall have the following meanings unless their context requires otherwise: (a) “Acupuncturist” shall mean […]
§ 13-c. Licensing of compensation medical bureaus and laboratories. 1. The chairman may, upon the recommendation of the medical society of the county or of a board as provided in section thirteen-b, authorize and license compensation medical bureaus in such counties operated by qualified physicians wholly or principally for the diagnosis and treatment of industrial […]
§ 13-d. Removal of providers from lists of those authorized to render medical care or to conduct independent medical examinations. 1. The medical society of the county in which the physician’s office is located at the time or a board designated by such county society or a board representing duly licensed physicians of any other […]
§ 13-e. Revocation of licenses of compensation medical bureaus and laboratories. The chairman may revoke the license of any compensation medical bureau or laboratory upon a finding certified to him by the medical society of the county in which such bureau or laboratory is located, or by a board designated by such medical society or […]
§ 13-f. Payment of medical fees. (1) Fees for medical services shall be payable only to a physician or other qualified person permitted by sections thirteen-b, thirteen-k, thirteen-l and thirteen-m of this chapter or other authorized provider of health care under the education law or the public health law permitted to render medical care or […]
§ 13-g. Payment of bills for medical care. (1) Within forty-five days after a bill for medical care or supplies delivered pursuant to section thirteen of this article has been rendered to the employer, such employer must pay the bill or notify the medical care provider or supplier in the format prescribed by the chair […]
§ 13-h. Ombudsman for injured workers. 1. The office of ombudsman for injured workers is created within the workers’ compensation board. The ombudsman shall report directly to the chair. The ombudsman shall act as an advocate for injured workers by accepting complaints concerning matters related to workers’ compensation, investigating them and attempting to resolve them. […]
§ 13-i. Solicitation prohibited. Any person who shall make it a business to solicit employment for any person authorized by this chapter to render medical care to an injured employee in connection with any claim under this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, except that the employer shall have the right subject to regulations […]
§ 13-j. Medical or surgical treatment by insurance carriers and employers. (1) An insurance carrier shall not participate in the treatment of injured workers, except as provided in paragraph five of subdivision (i) of section thirteen of this article and subdivision seven of section thirteen-a of this article and except, that it may employ medical […]
§ 13-k. Care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed podiatrists. 1. When the term “chairman” is hereinafter used, it shall be deemed to mean the chair of the workers’ compensation board of the state of New York. 2. An employee injured under circumstances which make such injury compensable under this article, when care […]
§ 13-l. Care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed chiropractors. 1. Where the term “chairman” is hereinafter used, it shall be deemed to mean the chair of the workers’ compensation board of the state of New York. 2. An employee injured under circumstances which make such injury compensable under this article, when care […]
§ 13-m. Care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed psychologists. 1. Where the term “chairman” is hereinafter used, it shall be deemed to mean the chair of the workers’ compensation board of the state of New York. 2. (a) An injured employee, injured under circumstances which make such injury compensable under this article, […]
§ 13-n. Mandatory registration of entities which derive income from independent medical examinations. 1. Any entity which derives income from independent medical examinations performed in accordance with subdivision four of section thirteen-a, subdivision three of section thirteen-k, subdivision three of section thirteen-1 and subdivision four of section thirteen-m of this article, whether by employing or […]
§ 13-o. Pharmaceutical fee schedule. The chair shall adopt a pharmaceutical fee schedule which shall establish maximum allowable fees for prescription medicines provided pursuant to this chapter. The schedule shall include a single dispensing fee. Nothing in the fee schedule shall preclude mail order supply of scheduled medicines, provided that the fees for such mail […]
§ 13-p. Comprehensive prescription drug formulary. The chair shall establish a comprehensive prescription drug formulary on or before December thirty-first, two thousand seventeen. The prescription drug formulary shall include a tiered list of high-quality, cost-effective medications that are pre-approved to be prescribed and dispensed, as well as additional non-preferred drugs that can be prescribed with […]
§ 14. Weekly wages basis of compensation. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the average weekly wages of the injured employee at the time of the injury shall be taken as the basis upon which to compute compensation or death benefits, and shall be determined as follows: 1. If the injured employee shall have […]
§ 14-a. Double compensation and death benefits when minors illegally employed. 1. Compensation, death benefits, and awards to the commissioner of taxation and finance in accordance with subdivision nine of section fifteen and section twenty-five-a, as provided in this article, shall be double the amount otherwise payable if the injured employee at the time of […]
