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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 211

Extent of liability for medical treatment

211 Extent of liability for medical treatment

(1) The insurer must pay the following costs for medical treatment for an injury, whether provided at 1 time or at different times—
(a) for medical treatment by a registered person—the cost that the insurer accepts as reasonable, having regard to the relevant table of costs;
(b) for nursing, medicines, medical or surgical supplies, curative apparatus, crutches or other assistive devices given to the worker otherwise than as an in-patient at a hospital—the cost that the insurer accepts as reasonable.
(2) The insurer’s liability for the cost of medical treatment by a registered chiropractor or a registered osteopath extends only to the cost of treatment involving the manipulation, mobilisation and management of the neuromusculoskeletal system of the human body.



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