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11-9-509. Medical services and supplies — Amounts and time periods.
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11-9-509. Medical services and supplies — Amounts and time periods.
The amounts payable or time periods allowable for authorized medical, hospital, and other services and treatment furnished under §§ 11-9-508 — 11-9-516, unless waived by the employer-respondent or approved by the Workers' Compensation Commission and warranted by the preponderance of the evidence on the basis of the record as a whole, are:
(1) Six (6) months if the claimant lost no compensable time from work as a result of his or her injury;
(2) Six (6) months following the return to work by an injured employee who has been receiving authorized medical or hospital or other services or treatment;
(3) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) aggregate for all authorized medical, hospital, and other services and treatment, including any amounts paid under subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-9-509
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11-9-509. Medical services and supplies — Amounts and time periods.
The amounts payable or time periods allowable for authorized medical, hospital, and other services and treatment furnished under §§ 11-9-508 — 11-9-516, unless waived by the employer-respondent or approved by the Workers' Compensation Commission and warranted by the preponderance of the evidence on the basis of the record as a whole, are:
(1) Six (6) months if the claimant lost no compensable time from work as a result of his or her injury;
(2) Six (6) months following the return to work by an injured employee who has been receiving authorized medical or hospital or other services or treatment;
(3) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) aggregate for all authorized medical, hospital, and other services and treatment, including any amounts paid under subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section.
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11-9-508. Medical services and supplies — Liability of employer — Definition.
(a)(1) The employer shall promptly provide for an injured employee such medical, surgical, hospital, chiropractic, optometric, podiatric, and nursing services and medicine, crutches, ambulatory devices, artificial limbs, eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, and other apparatus as may be reasonably necessary in connection with the injury received by the employee.
(2)(A) Rabies is a highly contagious and potentially deadly infectious disease, and exposure to rabies and the risk of infection is the direct result of an injury caused by the bite of a rabies-infected animal under this section.
(B)(i) An employer shall promptly provide reasonably necessary medical treatment to an injured employee who is exposed to rabies as described in subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section.
(ii) As used in subdivision (a)(2)(B)(i) of this section, “reasonably necessary medical treatment” means without limitation any diagnostic and preventive measures prescribed for detection, diagnosis, and prevention of rabies.
(b) If the employer fails to provide the medical services set out in subsection (a) of this section within a reasonable time after knowledge of the injury, the Workers' Compensation Commission may direct that the injured employee obtain the medical service at the expense of the employer, and any emergency treatment afforded the injured employee shall be at the expense of the employer. In no circumstance may an employee, his or her family, or dependents, be billed or charged for any portion of the cost of providing the benefits to which he or she is entitled under this chapter.
(c) In order to help control the cost of medical benefits, the commission, on or before July 1, 1994, following a pu
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-9-508
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11-9-516. Medical services and supplies — Information furnished by provider.
(a)(1) Every hospital or other person furnishing the injured employee with medical services shall permit its records to be copied by and shall furnish full written information to the Workers' Compensation Commission, the Workers' Compensation Fraud Investigation Unit, the employer, the carrier, and the employee or the employee's dependents.
(2) The reasonable cost of copies as set forth in Workers' Compensation Commission Rule 30 shall be paid by the one requesting them to the healthcare or medical service provider furnishing them.
(b) No person who in good faith pursuant to subsection (a) of this section or pursuant to rules established by the commission reports medical information shall incur legal liability for the disclosure of the information.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-9-516
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 11-9-516. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.