[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4978 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4978

   To require the administrative agency responsible for adjudicating 
 claims under the workers' compensation provisions of title 5, United 
 States Code, to follow certain procedures in seeking medical opinions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 17, 1994

Mr. Kreidler (for himself, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. 
Barlow, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Jacobs, Mrs. Unsoeld, Ms. Eddie 
Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Torres, Mr. Vento, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Synar, 
 and Mr. Johnston of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the administrative agency responsible for adjudicating 
 claims under the workers' compensation provisions of title 5, United 
 States Code, to follow certain procedures in seeking medical opinions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MEDICAL OPINIONS.

    The administrative agency to which the Secretary of Labor has 
delegated the authority to adjudicate claims made under the workers' 
compensation provisions of title 5, United States Code, shall in 
seeking a second medical opinion in such a claim select physicians on 
an impartial basis.
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