The Louisiana Legislature passed SB 303, workers’ compensation medical treatment legislation, just before it adjourned on June 25.
According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), SB 303 requires that medical treatments adhere to a new treatment schedule and that such treatments be in accordance with the principles of evidence-based medicine.
The legislation requires the director of the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration to establish a medical treatment schedule, in accordance with EBM principles, which the Administration must formally adopt by Sept. 30, 2010.
The director will also be responsible for appointing a medical advisory committee. In addition, the director will be given the authority to contract with a medical director in order to oversee the development and mandated bi-annual review of the treatment schedule.
The AIA, which supported the measure, commended lawmakers for passing the legislation.
Source: AIA, www.aiadc.org
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