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IN Code § 22-3-3-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-5. Medical Treatment; Liability of Estate; Right to Order Payment; Medical Service Provider Claims; Attending Physician Fees

Sec. 5. (a) The pecuniary liability of the employer for a service or product herein required shall be limited to the following:(1) This subdivision applies before July 1, 2014, to all medical service providers, and after June 30, 2014, to a medical service provider that is not a medical service facility. Such charges as prevail as provided under IC 22-3-6-1(k)(1), in the same community (as defined in IC 22-3-6-1(h)) for a like service or product to injured persons.(2) This subdivision applies after June 30, 2014, to a medical service facility. The amount provided under IC 22-3-6-1(k)(2).(b) The employee and the employee's estate do not have liability to a health care provider for payment for services obtained under IC 22-3-3-4.(c) The right to order payment for all services or products provided under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 is solely with the board.(d) All claims by a medical service provider for payment for services or products are against the employer and the employer's insurance carrier, if any, and must be made with the board under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6. After June 30, 2011, a medical service provider must file an application for adjustment of a claim for a medical service provider's fee with the board not later than two (2) years after the receipt of an initial written communication from the employer, the employer's insurance carrier, if any, or an agent acting on behalf of the employer after the medical service provider submits a bill for services or products. To offset a part of the board's expenses related to the administration of medical service provider reimbursement disputes, a medical service facility shall pay a filing fee of sixty dollars ($60) in a balance billing case. The filing fee must accompany each application filed with the board. If an employer, an employer's insurance carrier, or an agent acting on behalf of the employer denies or fails to pay any amount on a claim submitted by a medical service facility, a filing fee is not required to accompany an application that is filed for the denied or unpaid claim. A medical service provider may combine up to ten (10) individual claims into one (1) application whenever:(1) all individual claims involve the same employer, insurance carrier, or billing review service; and(2) the amount of each individual claim does not exceed two hundred dollars ($200).(e) The worker's compensation board may withhold the approval of the fees of the attending physician in a case until the attending physician files a report with the worker's compensation board on the form prescribed by the board.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.26. As amended by P.L.170-1991, SEC.4; P.L.216-1995, SEC.1; P.L.258-1997(ss), SEC.4; P.L.168-2011, SEC.3; P.L.275-2013, SEC.4.
IN Code § 22-3-3-5.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-5.1. Collection of Medical Expense Payments; Civil Penalties; Good Faith Errors

Sec. 5.1. (a) A medical service provider or a medical service provider's agent, servant, employee, assignee, employer, or independent contractor on behalf of the medical service provider may not knowingly collect or attempt to collect the payment of a charge for medical services or products covered under IC 22 from an employee or the employee's estate or family members.(b) If after a hearing, the worker's compensation board finds that a medical service provider has violated this section, the worker's compensation board may assess a civil penalty against the medical service provider in an amount that is at least one hundred dollars ($100) but less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation.(c) The worker's compensation board may not assess a civil penalty against a medical service provider for a violation of this section that is the result of a good faith error.As added by P.L.216-1995, SEC.2.
IN Code § 22-3-3-7.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-7.5. Average Weekly Wages of Public Employee; Determination

Sec. 7.5. For purposes of this chapter, the average weekly wages of a public employee shall be determined without regard to any salary reduction agreement under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code.As added by P.L.5-1992, SEC.8.
IN Code § 22-3-3-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-8. Temporary Total Disability or Total Permanent Disability; Awards

Sec. 8. With respect to injuries occurring prior to April 1, 1951, causing temporary total disability for work there shall be paid to the injured employee during such total disability for work a weekly compensation equal to fifty-five percent (55%) of his average weekly wages for a period not to exceed five hundred (500) weeks. With respect to injuries occurring on and after April 1, 1951, and prior to July 1, 1971, causing temporary total disability for work there shall be paid to the injured employee during such total disability a weekly compensation equal to sixty per cent (60%) of his average weekly wages for a period not to exceed five hundred (500) weeks. With respect to injuries occurring on and after July 1, 1971, and prior to July 1, 1974, causing temporary total disability for work there shall be paid to the injured employee during such total disability a weekly compensation equal to sixty per cent (60%) of his average weekly wages, as defined in IC 22-3-3-22 a period not to exceed five hundred (500) weeks. With respect to injuries occurring on and after July 1, 1974, and before July 1, 1976, causing temporary total disability or total permanent disability for work there shall be paid to the injured employee during such total disability a weekly compensation equal to sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of his average weekly wages up to one hundred and thirty-five dollars ($135.00) average weekly wages, as defined in section 22 of this chapter, for a period not to exceed five hundred (500) weeks. With respect to injuries occurring on and after July 1, 1976, causing temporary total disability or total permanent disability for work, there shall be paid to the injured employee during the total disability a weekly compensation equal to sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of his average weekly wages, as defined in IC 22-3-3-22, for a period not to exceed five hundred (500) weeks. Compensation shall be allowed for the first seven (7) calendar days only if the disability continues for longer than twenty-one (21) days.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.29; Acts 1949, c.243, s.2; Acts 1951, c.294, s.1; Acts 1971, P.L.353, SEC.2; Acts 1974, P.L.108, SEC.9. As amended by Acts 1976, P.L.112, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-3-3-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-9. Temporary Partial Disability; Awards

Sec. 9. With respect to injuries occurring prior to April 1, 1951 causing temporary partial disability for work, compensation shall be paid to the injured employee during such disability, as prescribed in section 7 of this chapter, a weekly compensation equal to fifty-five per cent (55%) of the difference between his average weekly wages and the weekly wages at which he is actually employed after the injury, for a period not to exceed three hundred (300) weeks. With respect to injuries occurring on and after April 1, 1951 and prior to July 1, 1974 causing temporary partial disability for work, compensation shall be paid to the injured employee during such disability, as prescribed in section 7 of this chapter, a weekly compensation equal to sixty per cent (60%) of the difference between his average weekly wages and the weekly wages at which he is actually employed after the injury, for a period not to exceed three hundred (300) weeks. With respect to injuries occurring on and after July 1, 1974 causing temporary partial disability for work, compensation shall be paid to the injured employee during such disability as prescribed in section 7 of this chapter, a weekly compensation equal to sixty-six and two-thirds per cent (66 2/3%) of the difference between his average weekly wages and the weekly wages at which he is actually employed after the injury, for a period not to exceed three hundred (300) weeks. In case the partial disability begins after the period of temporary total disability, the latter period shall be included as a part of the maximum period allowed for partial disability.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.30; Acts 1937, c.214, s.2; Acts 1951, c.294, s.2; Acts 1974, P.L.108, SEC.10.
IN Code § 22-3-3-10.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-10.5. Permanent Partial Impairment Agreement; Supporting Documentation; Payment of Compensation; Civil Penalty

Sec. 10.5. (a) The following must be tendered to an employee not later than fifteen (15) days after the date of the physician's statement described in subdivision (2):(1) A proposed permanent partial impairment agreement.(2) The associated physician's statement required by IC 22-3-3-6(e).(3) The employee waiver of examination.(4) A hand/foot chart, if necessary.(b) A permanent partial impairment agreement signed by the employee, along with the supporting documentation listed in subsection (a), must be submitted to the worker's compensation board for approval not later than fifteen (15) days after the date of receipt from the employee.(c) Not later than thirty (30) days after the date the worker's compensation board approves the permanent partial impairment agreement, one (1) of the following amounts must be paid:(1) The first weekly installment of compensation for permanent partial impairment.(2) The lump sum, if the compensation is to be paid in a lump sum amount.(d) An employer that fails to comply with subsection (c) is subject to a civil penalty under IC 22-3-4-15.As added by P.L.204-2018, SEC.4.
IN Code § 22-3-3-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-11. Partial Disability; Refusing Employment; Notice

Sec. 11. (a) If an injured employee, only partially disabled, refuses employment suitable to his capacity procured for him, he shall not be entitled to any compensation at any time during the continuance of such refusal unless in the opinion of the worker's compensation board such refusal was justifiable.(b) Before compensation can be denied under this section the employee must be served with a notice setting forth the consequences of the refusal of employment under this section. The notice must be in a form prescribed by the worker's compensation board.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.32. As amended by P.L.95-1988, SEC.6.
IN Code § 22-3-3-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-12. Subsequent Permanent Injuries; Aggravation; Awards

Sec. 12. If an employee has sustained a permanent injury either in another employment, or from other cause or causes than the employment in which he received a subsequent permanent injury by accident, such as specified in section 31, he shall be entitled to compensation for the subsequent permanent injury in the same amount as if the previous injury had not occurred: Provided, however, That if the permanent injury for which compensation is claimed, results only in the aggravation or increase of a previously sustained permanent injury or physical condition, regardless of the source or cause of such previously sustained injury or physical condition, the board shall determine the extent of the previously sustained permanent injury or physical condition, as well as the extent of the aggravation or increase resulting from the subsequent permanent injury, and shall award compensation only for that part of such injury, or physical condition resulting from the subsequent permanent injury. Provided further, however, That amputation of any part of the body or loss of any or all of the vision of one or both eyes shall be considered as a permanent injury or physical condition.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.33; Acts 1945, c.284, s.2.
IN Code § 22-3-3-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-14. Subsequent Injuries; Two Awards

Sec. 14. If an employee receives an injury for which compensation is payable while he is still receiving or entitled to compensation for a previous injury in the same employment, he shall not at the same time be entitled to compensation for both injuries, unless it be for a permanent injury, such as specified in section 10 of this chapter; but he shall be entitled to compensation for that injury and from the time of that injury which will cover the longest period and the largest amount payable under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.34. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.32.
IN Code § 22-3-3-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-15. Subsequent Injuries; Awards; Extending Period of Payment

Sec. 15. If an employee receives a permanent injury such as specified in section 10 of this chapter after having sustained another permanent injury in the same employment, he shall be entitled to compensation for both injuries, but the total compensation shall be paid by extending the period and not by increasing the amount of weekly compensation, and when such previous and subsequent permanent injuries in combination result in total permanent disability or permanent total impairment, compensation shall be payable for such permanent total disability or permanent total impairment, but payments made for the previous injury shall be deducted from the total payment of compensation due.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.35; Acts 1963, c.387, s.9. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.33.
IN Code § 22-3-3-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-16. Death While Receiving Awards; Dependents; Payment

Sec. 16. When an employee has been awarded or is entitled to an award of compensation for a definite period under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 for an injury occurring prior to April 1, 1945, and dies from any other cause than such injury, payment of the unpaid balance of such compensation, not exceeding three hundred (300) weeks, shall be made to his dependents as defined in section 18 of this chapter; provided that where the compensable injury occurred on and after April 1, 1945, and prior to April 1, 1951, the maximum shall not exceed three hundred fifty (350) weeks. With respect to any such injury occurring on and after April 1, 1951, the maximum shall not exceed three hundred fifty (350) weeks for dependents of the second or third class and the maximum shall not exceed five hundred (500) weeks for dependents of the first class.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.36; Acts 1945, c.188, s.5; Acts 1951, c.294, s.4. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.34.
IN Code § 22-3-3-18 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-18. Death Resulting From Injuries; Award; Payment to Dependents

Sec. 18. (a) Dependents under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall consist of the following three (3) classes:(1) Presumptive dependents.(2) Total dependents in fact.(3) Partial dependents in fact.(b) Presumptive dependents shall be entitled to compensation to the complete exclusion of total dependents in fact and partial dependents in fact and shall be entitled to such compensation in equal shares.(c) Total dependents in fact shall be entitled to compensation to the complete exclusion of partial dependents in fact and shall be entitled to such compensation, if more than one (1) such dependent exists, in equal shares. The question of total dependency shall be determined as of the time of death.(d) Partial dependents in fact shall not be entitled to any compensation if any other class of dependents exist. The weekly compensation to persons partially dependent in fact shall be in the same proportion to the weekly compensation of persons wholly dependent as the average amount contributed weekly by the deceased to such partial dependent in fact bears to his average weekly wages at the time of the occurrence of the accident. The question of partial dependency in fact shall be determined as of the time of the occurrence of the accident.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.38; Acts 1947, c.162, s.7. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.35.
IN Code § 22-3-3-20 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-20. Total or Partial Dependents; Eligibility; Termination

Sec. 20. Total or partial dependents in fact shall include only those persons related to the deceased employee by blood or by marriage, except an unmarried child under the age of eighteen (18) years. Any such person who is actually totally or partially dependent upon the deceased employee is entitled to compensation as such dependent in fact. The right to compensation of any person totally or partially dependent in fact shall be terminated by the marriage of such dependent subsequent to the death of the employee and such dependency shall not be reinstated by divorce.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.38b; Acts 1947, c.162, s.9.
IN Code § 22-3-3-21 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-21. Burial Expenses

Sec. 21. In cases of the death of an employee from an injury by an accident arising out of and in the course of the employee's employment under circumstances that the employee would have been entitled to compensation if death had not resulted, the employer shall pay the burial expenses of such employee, not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.39; Acts 1937, c.214, s.3; Acts 1943, c.136, s.4; Acts 1947, c.162, s.10; Acts 1955, c.231, s.1; Acts 1963, c.387, s.11; Acts 1967, c.312, s.1; Acts 1971, P.L.353, SEC.4. As amended by P.L.225-1983, SEC.1; P.L.16-1984, SEC.15; P.L.95-1988, SEC.7; P.L.170-1991, SEC.8; P.L.201-2005, SEC.4; P.L.167-2019, SEC.1.
IN Code § 22-3-3-23 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-23. Mistake in Payments; Deductions; Payments to State Employees

Sec. 23. (a) Any payments made by the employer to the injured employee during the period of his disability, or to his dependents, which by the terms of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 were not due and payable when made, may, subject to the approval of the worker's compensation board, be deducted from the amount to be paid as compensation. However, the deduction shall be made from the distal end of the period during which compensation must be paid, except in cases of temporary disability.(b) Payments to state employees under the terms of IC 5-10-8-7(d)(5) shall be taken as a credit by the state against payments of compensation for temporary total disability during the time period in which the employee is eligible for compensation under both IC 5-10-8-7(d)(5) and section 8 of this chapter. After a state employee is ineligible for payments under IC 5-10-8-7(d)(5) and if he is still eligible for payments for temporary total disability under section 8 of this chapter, any payments for temporary total disability shall be deducted from the amount of compensation payable under section 10 of this chapter. Payments to state employees under the terms of IC 5-10-8-7(d)(5) may not be deducted from compensation payable under section 10 of this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.41. As amended by Acts 1976, P.L.113, SEC.1; P.L.28-1988, SEC.29; P.L.1-1994, SEC.107.
IN Code § 22-3-3-24 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-24. Compensation Ordered by Single Hearing Board Member; Payments; Time of Payments; Civil Penalty

Sec. 24. (a) An award of compensation ordered by a single hearing member of the worker's compensation board must be paid not later than thirty (30) days after the date of the award, or as the award provides, if the award is not appealed to the full board. An employer that fails to comply with this subsection is subject to a civil penalty under IC 22-3-4-15.(b) When so provided in the compensation agreement or in the award of the worker's compensation board, compensation may be paid semimonthly, or monthly, instead of weekly.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.42. As amended by P.L.28-1988, SEC.30; P.L.204-2018, SEC.6.
IN Code § 22-3-3-25 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-25. Lump Sum Payments; Minors; Interest Rate

Sec. 25. (a) In unusual cases, upon the agreement of the employer and the employee or his dependents, and the insurance carrier, and the approval of the worker's compensation board, compensation may be redeemed, in whole or in part, by the cash payment, in a lump sum, of the commutable value of the installments to be redeemed.(b) The board may, at any time, in the case of permanently disabling injuries of a minor, require that he be compensated by the cash payment in a lump sum of the commutable value of the unredeemed installments of the compensation to which he is entitled.(c) In all such cases, the commutable value of the future unpaid installments of compensation shall be the present value thereof, at the rate of three percent (3%) interest, compounded annually.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.43; Acts 1937, c.214, s.4; Acts 1947, c.162, s.11. As amended by P.L.28-1988, SEC.31.
IN Code § 22-3-3-26 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-26. Lump Sum Payments; Trustees

Sec. 26. Whenever the worker's compensation board deems it expedient, any lump sum under section 25 of this chapter shall be paid by the employer to some suitable person or corporation appointed by the circuit or superior court, as trustee, to administer the same for the benefit of the person entitled thereto, in the manner authorized by the court appointing such trustee. The receipt of such trustee for the amount so paid shall discharge the employer or anyone else who is liable therefor.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.44. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.36; P.L.28-1988, SEC.32.