Assembly Actions -
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Jun 07, 2016 |
print number 2874a |
Jun 07, 2016 |
amend and recommit to labor |
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referred to labor |
Jan 29, 2015 |
referred to labor |
Senate Bill S2874A
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
2015-S2874 - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §13-l, add §356, Work Comp L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010:
S5233
2011-2012: S1405
2013-2014: S3681
2015-S2874 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S2874 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to chiropractic care PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would end years of the most blatant discriminatory regulation against the consumers of chiropractic care. Chiropractors have been paid one flat fee for all treatment services rendered to an injured worker for 31 years while all other providers, including non-doctor providers, are paid for virtually every service they perform. Chiropractors are mandated by statute to provide the same level of care to an injured worker as to a private patient, but are not reimbursed for the services - they are given only a flat "limited office visit" fee. No other state has a separate and distinct Workers' Compensation fee schedule for chiropractors. Chiropractors are not even reimbursed for a main staple of their practice, spinal adjustments (spinal manipulation). This policy forces health care consumers to consult additional providers for these services. This legislation would recognize that chiropractors provide a variety of services and to clarify that the workers' compensation system must pay for the individual modalities employed by chiropractors in rendering primary health care services to injured workers.
2015-S2874 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2874 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 29, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to chiroprac- tic care THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature recognizes that multi- ple health professionals are trained and licensed to diagnose and treat the same or similar conditions through the use of modalities, therapies, treatments, services and philosophies that vary from profession to profession. It is the specific intent of this legislature to assure that workers' compensation policies, plans and contracts that provide cover- age for the diagnosis and treatment of conditions, complaints, ailments, disorders or injuries, that may be diagnosed and treated by a doctor of chiropractic, must provide equivalent access, coverage and fees for the diagnosis and treatment of those conditions, complaints or injuries by a duly licensed doctor of chiropractic, within the lawful scope of chirop- ractic practice even if different terminology, philosophy, services, treatments or modalities are used by the various health professions; and such equivalent coverage shall not be abridged by any regulation. S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 13-l of the workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 473 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows: 2. (A) An employee injured under circumstances which make such injury compensable under this article, when care is required for an injury which consists solely of a condition which may lawfully be treated by a chiropractor as defined in section sixty-five hundred fifty-one of the education law may select to treat him or her, any duly registered and licensed chiropractor of the state of New York, authorized by the chair to render chiropractic care as hereinafter provided. If the injury or condition is one which is outside the limits prescribed by the education EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08380-01-5
2015-S2874A (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §13-l, add §356, Work Comp L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
-
2009-2010:
S5233
2011-2012: S1405
2013-2014: S3681
2015-S2874A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2874A TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to chiropractic care PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : This bill would end years of the most blatant discriminatory regulation against the consumers of chiropractic care. Chiropractors have been paid one flat fee for all treatment services rendered to an injured worker for 31 years while all other providers, including non-doctor providers, are paid for virtually every service they perform. Chiropractors are mandated by statute to provide the same level of care to an injured worker as to a private patient, but are not reimbursed for the services - they are given only a flat "limited office visit" fee. No other state has a separate and distinct Workers' Compensation fee schedule for chiropractors. Chiropractors are not even reimbursed for a main staple of their practice, spinal adjustments (spinal manipulation). This policy forces health care consumers to consult additional providers for these services. This legislation would recognize that chiropractors provide a variety of services and to clarify that the workers' compensation system must pay for the individual modalities employed by chiropractors in rendering primary health care services to injured workers.
2015-S2874A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2874--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 29, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to chiroprac- tic care THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature recognizes that multi- ple health professionals are trained and licensed to diagnose and treat the same or similar conditions through the use of modalities, therapies, treatments, services and philosophies that vary from profession to profession. It is the specific intent of this legislature to assure that workers' compensation policies, plans and contracts that provide cover- age for the diagnosis and treatment of conditions, complaints, ailments, disorders or injuries, that may be diagnosed and treated by a doctor of chiropractic, must provide equivalent access, coverage and fees for the diagnosis and treatment of those conditions, complaints or injuries by a duly licensed doctor of chiropractic, within the lawful scope of chirop- ractic practice even if different terminology, philosophy, services, treatments or modalities are used by the various health professions; and such equivalent coverage shall not be abridged by any regulation. S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 13-l of the workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 473 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows: 2. (A) An employee injured under circumstances which make such injury compensable under this article, when care is required for an injury which consists solely of a condition which may lawfully be treated by a chiropractor as defined in section sixty-five hundred fifty-one of the education law may select to treat him or her, any duly registered and EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08380-02-6
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