Bill Text: NY A01396 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes treatment of workers' compensation injuries by an occupational therapy assistant.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-29 - REFERRED TO LABOR [A01396 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01396-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1396--B 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, WEPRIN, COLTON, BENEDETTO, STECK, SKOUFIS, MURRAY, STIRPE, BRINDISI, GARBARINO, THIELE -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. LUPINACCI, McDONOUGH, WALTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to authoriz- ing treatment of workers' compensation injuries by an occupational therapy assistant The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 13-b of the work- 2 ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 473 of the laws of 2000, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (e) Upon the prescription or referral of an authorized physician occu- 5 pational therapy care may be rendered by a duly licensed occupational 6 therapist or by a duly licensed occupational therapy assistant licensed 7 by the state education department pursuant to article one hundred 8 fifty-six of the education law. Where occupational therapy care is 9 rendered records of the patient's condition and progress, together with 10 records of instruction for treatment, if any shall be maintained by the 11 occupational therapist and physician. Said records shall be submitted to 12 the chair on forms and at such times as the chair may require. A duly 13 licensed occupational therapy assistant shall not be authorized to 14 perform independent medical examinations. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04628-04-7