{"id":677,"date":"2015-03-09T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:19:12","slug":"choose-your-doctor-legislation-need-testimony-and-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2015\/03\/articles\/benefits\/medical-care\/choose-your-doctor-legislation-need-testimony-and-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Doctor Legislation: Need Testimony and Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada injured workers can do something about the current law that limits their choice of treating doctors to those on their industrial insurers&#8217; provider lists.  The Nevada Chiropractic Association has sponsored a bill, AB 187,  that would amend current law and would allow injured workers to treat with a doctor who is willing to accept what other contracted physicians accept for payment for similar treatment.  I urge you to come to the Grant Sawyer Building on E. Washington in Las Vegas on March 11, 2015,  at 1:30 pm, to testify before the assembly sub-committee considering this legislation to tell them your experiences with having to treat with &#8220;their doctors&#8221;.  Alternatively, you may write a letter, with your name, address, and phone number immediately, and email or fax it to me at (702) 731-9097 and I will enter it as an exhibit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada injured workers can do something about the current law that limits their choice of treating doctors to those on their industrial insurers&#8217; provider lists. The Nevada Chiropractic Association has sponsored a bill, AB 187, that would amend current law and would allow injured workers to treat with a doctor who is willing to accept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2015\/03\/articles\/benefits\/medical-care\/choose-your-doctor-legislation-need-testimony-and-letters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Choose Your Doctor Legislation: Need Testimony and Letters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,73],"tags":[298,321,403],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-proposals","category-medical-care","tag-legislation","tag-medical-care","tag-providers-lists"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}