WCAC meeting materials

March 28, 2023

• Draft:  Workers' compensation system efficiency proposals

• Industry 2023 WCAC agenda

• Letter:  Minnesota Association of Justice proposal two related to reducing medical records costs

• Letter:  Minnesota Department of Commerce to Commissioner Nicole Blissenbach

• Presentation:  Projected increase in system cost resulting from indexing PPD benefits

• Report:  2023 report to the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council (Rates Oversight Commission)

March 8, 2023

• Draft for discussion purposes:  176.081 Legal services or disbursements; lien; review

• Minnesota Association for Justice:  2023 proposed legislative changes

• Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association:  Presentation

• Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association:  Proposals for legislative changes

• Proposed amendments related to sections one through five

Feb. 8, 2023

• Draft for discussion purposes:  Repealer, Minnesota Statutes section 176.223 is repealed

• Labor proposals to WCAC for 2023 session

• Memorandum from Minnesota Department of Commerce:  Legislative proposal for chapter 79A related to bankruptcy (updated posting, Feb. 7)

• Presentation:  Claims for post-traumatic stress disorder

• Proposed amendments related to sections one through four

Jan. 25, 2023

• Draft for discussion purposes:  Proposed amendments

• Legislative proposal for Chapter 79A related to bankruptcy – Minnesota Department of Commerce

• Letter to WCAC from Minnesota Nurses Association

Dec. 14, 2022

• Minnesota workers' compensation:  Estimated cost effects of proposed changes in payment systems for outpatient hospitals

• Proposed amendments draft for discussion purposes 

• Presentation:  COVID-19 workers' compensation claims statistics (updated through Nov. 8, 2022)

• Presentation:  Hospital Outpatient Fee schedule timeliness update

Nov. 9, 2022

• Presentation:  Making work comp work right – United Construction Workers' Compensation Program

April 12, 2022

• Agenda (updated)

• H.F. 4026

• Letter:  From Association of Minnesota Counties, Minnesota Inter-county Association and Minnesota Sheriffs' Association to DLI and WCAC

• Letter:  From League of Minnesota Cities to DLI and WCAC

• Letter:  From Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association to DLI and WCAC

Jan. 26, 2022

• Agenda

• House file 2656

• Letter:  League of Minnesota Cities

Jan. 13, 2022

• Agenda (updated)

• Labor proposal:  Cost of living adjustment to permanent partial disability schedule – 1984 to present

• Minnesota's workers' compensation COVID-19 claims update

• Permanent partial disability proposal

• Proposed filing amendments:  Draft for discussion purposes on Jan. 13, 2021

• Work Comp Campus report to WCAC:  Improvements to Work Comp Campus and the case management system, January 2022

Dec. 8, 2021

• Dec. 8, 2021 WCAC DLI clean-up proposal draft

• Minnesota's workers' compensation COVID-19 claims update

• Permanent partial disability (PPD) benefit change

• PPD proposal estimates

Oct. 13, 2021

• HOFS and ASCPS reports excerpts:  payment accuracy and timeliness results

• Minnesota's workers' compensation COVID-19 claims update:  Claims reported through Oct. 4, 2021

• Proposed amendments providing for adjustment to the permanent partial disability schedule in Minnesota Statutes 176.101, subdivision 2a

• The non-indexing of PPD benefits and alternatives for raising them

Sept. 8, 2021

• 2019 Minnesota Workers' Compensation System Report overview

• Minnesota Association for Justice:  MAJ 2021 proposed workers' compensation legislative changes

• Proposed amendments providing for adjustment of permanent partial disability schedule in Minnesota Statutes § 176.101, subdivisions 1 and 5

• Senate file 1035

• Status of outstanding 2021 workers' compensation legislative proposals

March 10, 2021

• Agenda

• COVID-19 summary from Minnesota Workers' Compensation Insurers Association

• Letter from League of Minnesota Cities

• Letter from Minnesota Association of Townships Agency

• Letter from Minnesota Hospital Association

• Letter from Minnesota School Boards Association

• Report:  Workers' compensation rates in Minnesota from Minnesota Department of Commerce

Feb. 24, 2021

• Additional information about COVID-19 claims denials at Minnesota hospitals

• COVID-19 claims filing by essential workers

• Letter from Minnesota Independent School Forum and Minnesota Catholic Conference

• Letter from Minnesota Ambulatory Center Surgery Association

• Letter from Minnesota Medical Association

• Letter from Rodgers Law Office

• Nonindexing of PPD benefits and alternatives for raising them

• Maintaining the value of the TTD benefit

• Proposed amendments prohibiting subpoenas of DLI employees, unless DLI is a party

• Proposed amendments providing for adjustments to the minimum compensation rate and permanent partial disability schedule in Minnesota Statutes 176.101, subdivisions 1 and 5

• Proposed amendments providing for penalties and employee reimbursement where a health care provider collects or attempts to collect payment of medical charges from an employee

• Proposed amendments to Minnesota Statutes 176.1362 for calculation of inpatient hospital bills