FIC: Workers’ Comp Nurse Registry Attendant Care Bill Approved By House and Senate Committees

By:  Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel House and Senate committees approved bills on January 15, 2020 that allow, but not require, workers’ compensation carriers to use a licensed nurse registry to place authorized compensable attendant care services for injured workers. Under the bill, the use of a nurse registry for attendant care is an administrative…

FIC: Workers’ Comp Nurse Registry Attendant Care Bill Passes First House Committee

By:  Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Workers’ compensation insurers would be allowed, but not required, to use a licensed nurse registry to place authorized compensable attendant care services for injured workers under a bill approved by the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee on December 11,2019.  HB 437 was approved by the Subcommittee after a strike…