USCC Workers Comp 2024 - 86

86 | 2024 Analysis of Workers' Compensation Laws
Chart IX-Waiting Period for Income/Medical Benefits, cont.
Jurisdiction Waiting Period1
Retroactive
Period
Vermont
Three days for
temporary total
disability, eight days
for temporary partial
disability, no waiting
period for medical
benefits.
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Seven days
Three days
10 days for
temporary total
disability
Unlimited2
Yes
Choice of Physician
Employer
Initial choice
Artificial
Employee
Employee may change
Appliances
Furnished
Yes
Medical Benefits
Special Provisions
Injury includes damage to and cost of replacement of eyeglasses,
hearing aids, and prosthetic devices. Employer must not withhold
any wages from an employee if the employee's absence is for an
examination or treatment of a work injury.
Three weeks
Two weeks
Yes
From employer list
Yes
Yes, but must be with a provider
from network established by
agency (except an initial office
visit or emergency room visit).
Three days
One week
Yes48
May have a preferred
list
Three days
One week
Yes
May choose within employer- or
commission-managed care
system; if no such system,
unrestricted choice
Yes
Yes
Yes
Employer must repair or replace appliances damaged in compensable
accident and may be ordered to make alterations to home, maximum
$42,000.
Employees of State Fund employers may pay half of medical aid
premiums. Employees of self-insured employers may pay half of the
supplemental pension and asbestos assessments and pay all the cost of
the overpayment reimbursement fund.
Yes
Payment for prosthetic or orthotic appliances if medically necessary.
Repair or replacement of eyeglasses damaged in an accident not
reimbursable unless there is a compensable injury.
Yes
Repair or replacement of appliance is limited to normal wear and tear.
Dental care, eyeglasses, and hearing aids are also covered. Repair or
replacement of eyeglasses and hearing aids not paid for unless damaged
in compensable accident. Employer or insurer may request that a physician
examine injured employee to determine reasonableness of claim.
Wyoming
American
Samoa
Virgin Islands
FECA
Alberta
0 days
Three days51
Longshore Act Three days
One day53
Two weeks
None
Three days
Nine days
Yes
No
Second opinion
Yes
Yes
Yes
All medical bills audited according to promulgated fee schedule.
Employer will furnish, where no other provision is made, medical,
surgical, and other attendance or treatment, nurse, hospital service,
medicine, crutches, and apparatus for such period as the nature of the
injury or process of recovery may require.
No49
Yes
Yes
Yes
Initial choice
Yes
Labor secretary may change52
Yes, at board's discretion
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
$200,000 limit for specialized treatment not available in the Virgin
Islands.50
$75,000 for treatment within the Virgin Islands.
Consent for specialist, if needed.
Appliances repaired or replaced by board. Board may repair or replace
garments damaged in compensable accident. Clothing allowance for
wear due to prosthetic or wheelchair; upper limb-up to $827.47
(male), $1,637.53 (female); lower limb-$566.05 (male), $1,442.74
(female); wheelchair-$1,404.45 (male), $2,383.30 (female) as of 1/1/21.
Attendance allowance determined by degree of personal care required
and will reflect actual and reasonable costs or competitive rates.
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