SF 365: Relating to the choice of doctor to treat injured employees under workers’ compensation laws and including effective date and applicability provisions

What it does

This bill relates to the choice of a physician to treat an injured employee under the state’s workers’ compensation laws. The bill allows the employer to choose care unless the employee has predesignated a physician as provided in the bill. The bill gives an employee the right to predesignate a physician who is a primary care provider, who has previously provided treatment to the employee and has retained the employee’s medical records, to provide treatment for a work-related injury. The employer is required to provide written notice to employees of this right upon hire, and periodically during employment, and upon receiving notice of an injury from an employee who has not yet predesignated a physician of the employee’s right to do so, in a manner prescribed by the workers’ compensation commissioner.

Lobbying · 5 for, 0 against

For: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; IBEW Iowa State Conference; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Iowa State Building and Construction Trades; Plumbers and Steam Fitters Local 33

In plain words

1. February 22, 2023Filed in the Senate and sent to the Workforce committee