When a worker receiving medical-care benefits under the grounds the provision names needs treatment extended, what must the medical institution put in a treatment plan and where must it send it?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
The practice file would hold the treatment plan itself, checking that it states the course of the injury or disease, the expected treatment period and the method of treatment; the record showing the worker is receiving benefits under the grounds the provision names; and any notice from the Corporation altering the treatment period.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading treats submission as a duty of the workers' compensation insurance medical institution itself: where a worker receiving medical-care benefits under the grounds the provision names needs the treatment period extended, that institution must file with the Corporation a plan recording the course of the injury or disease, the expected treatment period and the method of treatment, in the form the Presidential Decree prescribes.
Another reading notes that filing does not settle the treatment period: the Corporation examines whether the submitted plan is appropriate and may, in its own discretion, order changes to the treatment period or take other measures the Presidential Decree prescribes, so the plan opens the record to review rather than closing it.
Your judgment
Where the provision lists the plan's contents but adds an open-ended 'etc.', how much further detail must the plan carry before it satisfies the Presidential Decree's form?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change who must submit the plan or what it must contain, or if the Presidential Decree prescribing its form is revised.