Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF2039

Relating to workers compensation; increasing the temporary total disability
payment and lengthening the time period of payment eligibility; lengthening the
time period of eligibility for payment of temporary total or temporary partial
compensation; modifying relative value fee schedule conversion factors,
authorizing the commissioner of labor and industry to update relative value
table; modifying the medical fee review employer limitation of liability,
specifying employer liability for treatment, articles and supplies provided by
hospitals located within eleven county metropolitan area and outside the
metropolitan area, defining metropolitan area to include Anoka, Carver, Chisago,
Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Washington and Wright
counties; permitting department assigned workers compensation identification
numbers to be substituted for social security numbers; repealing a workers
compensation expense payment to the department of labor and industry and a
department rulemaking requirement
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