SB376
AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing an injured employee with a claim for an occupational lung disease or occupational heart disease to seek treatment or services from a physician or chiropractic physician which is not on the panel of physicians and chiropractic physicians maintained by the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry under certain circumstances; setting forth certain requirements for the reimbursement of the costs for such treatment or services; providing for a penalty for failure to comply with those requirements; authorizing certain notices and other documents required in certain hearings or appeals relating to industrial insurance to be provided by means of an electronic filing system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing an injured employee with a claim for an occupational lung disease or occupational heart disease to seek treatment or services from a physician or chiropractic physician which is not on the panel of physicians and chiropractic physicians maintained by the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry under certain circumstances; setting forth certain requirements for the reimbursement of the costs for such treatment or services; providing for a penalty for failure to comply with those requirements; authorizing certain notices and other documents required in certain hearings or appeals relating to industrial insurance to be provided by means of an electronic filing system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Monday, March 17, 2025
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AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing an injured employee with a claim for an occupational lung disease o
Existing law establishes the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act and the Nevada Occupational Diseases Act, which provide for the payment of compensation to employees who are injured or disabled as a result of an occupational injury or occupational disease. (Chapters 616A-616D and 617 of NRS) Existing law provides for the payment of compensation for claims for the occupational diseases of lung disease and heart disease for certain firefighters, arson investigators and police officers. (NRS 617.455, 617.457) Existing law requires the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to maintain a panel of physicians and chiropractic physicians to treat the injured employees of certain employers under the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act and the Nevada Occupational Diseases Act. (NRS 616C.087, 616C.090) Existing law authorizes an injured employee to choose a treating physician or chiropractic physician from the panel unless the insurer of the injured employee's employer has entered into certain contracts with an organization for managed care or with providers of health care, in which case the injured employee is required to choose a physician or chiropractic physician in accordance with the provisions of the contract. (NRS 616C.090) Sections 1, 2 and 4 of this bill provide an exception from those requirements to authorize certain injured employees who have filed a claim for the occupational diseases of lung disease or heart disease t
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- Proposed Conceptual Amendment — Assemblymember O'Neill (Testimony)
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