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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fifth Legislature, Second Regular Session
injury reports; medical treatment
Purpose
Narrows the type of injuries that must be included in an injury report by an employer and a physician to injuries requiring medical treatment.
Background
The Industrial Commission of Arizona (ICA) is the state regulatory agency responsible for processing and adjudicating a workers' compensation claim. The ICA prescribes regulations requiring employers to maintain accurate records of, and to make periodic reports on, work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses other than minor injuries requiring only first aid treatment and which do not involve medical treatment, loss of consciousness, restriction of work or motion or transfer to another job (A.R.S. § 23-427).
Every employer and every physician who attends an injured employee of that employer must file a full and complete report of every known injury to the employee arising out of or in the course of employment and resulting in the loss of life or injury with the ICA and the employer's insurance carrier from time to time (A.R.S. § 23-908).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Narrows the type of injuries that must be included in an injury report by an employer and a physician to injuries requiring medical treatment.
2. Stipulates that medical treatment does not include any onetime, short-term treatment by nonmedical staff that requires little technology or training to administer, including the treatment of minor scratches, cuts, burns and splinters and other issues that ordinarily do not require medical care.
3. Makes technical changes.
4. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
House Action
COM 2/15/22 DP 9-0-0-1
3rd Read 2/23/22 59-0-1
Prepared by Senate Research
March 7, 2022
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