4123-6-21.1 Payment for outpatient medication by self-insuring employer.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at 2:00 p.m., in Room 1, Level 2, 30 West Spring Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, to consider the following:

 

 

Amending the following rules for the purposes as shown below:

 

4123-6-21.1 Payment for outpatient medication by self-insuring employer. 4123-6-21.5 Standard dose tapering schedules.

 

The Bureau is proposing amendments to this rule to create a standard process used for weaning certain prescription drugs applicable to injured workers. The proposed change will require self-insuring employers to utilize the weaning tables listed in the appendix to proposed Bureau rule 4123-6-21.5 of the Administrative Code.

 

The full and complete text of the proposed rules is available at the Register of Ohio (http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us) and is on file in the office of the Secretary of State (180 East Broad Street, 15th Floor, Columbus, Ohio), the Legislative  Service Commission (77 South High Street, 9th Floor, Columbus, Ohio), the office of the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (77 South High Street, Concourse Level, Columbus, Ohio), the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Legal Operations (30 West Spring Street, 26th Floor, Columbus, Ohio), the Bureau of Workers' Compensation (30 West Spring Street, Columbus, Ohio, 1st Floor, Hearing Rooms), and all service offices of the Bureau.

 

All interested parties will be given an opportunity to be heard. Any interested party unable to attend the public hearing may submit written comments to the undersigned prior to the public hearing at [e-mail].

 

THE OHIO BUREAU OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION

 

Tom Sico

Assistant General Counsel, BWC 30 West Spring Street, L-26 Columbus, Ohio 43215-2256

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