Bill Text: CT SB00319 | 2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Maximum Medical Improvement.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-03 - Public Hearing 03/11 [SB00319 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00319-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 319 | ||
February Session, 2014 |
LCO No. 1686 | ||
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Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES |
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Introduced by: |
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AN ACT CONCERNING MAXIMUM MEDICAL IMPROVEMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2014) (a) No employer or insurer shall deny an employee who has suffered an injury for which compensation is provided under the provisions of chapter 568 of the general statutes and which results in partial or total incapacity to work, medical and surgical aid or hospital and nursing service, as defined in section 31-275 of the general statutes, solely because such employee's physician or surgeon has diagnosed the employee as attaining maximum medical improvement. For purposes of this section, "maximum medical improvement" means a point in time when any medically determinable physical impairment as a result of injury has become stable and when no further treatment is reasonably expected to improve the condition.
(b) An employer or insurer shall furnish medical and surgical aid or hospital and nursing service to any employee who has suffered an injury for which compensation is provided under the provisions of chapter 568 of the general statutes and which results in partial or total incapacity to work and is diagnosed by such employee's physician or surgeon as attaining maximum medical improvement for the purpose of continued treatment of the physical impairment that resulted in the diagnosis of maximum medical improvement.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2014 |
New section |
Statement of Purpose:
To bar employers and insurers from denying medical and surgical aid or hospital and nursing service to an employee who has suffered an injury for which compensation is provided under the provisions of chapter 568 and has attained maximum medical improvement.
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