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United States — North Carolina
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The Commission may set maximum fees for certain claim-related services.
United States — North Carolina
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This section limits reimbursement for certain drugs and pharmaceutical services, and requires billing with the original manufacturer’s NDC in some cases.
United States — North Carolina
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The Commission must set and periodically revise a maximum medical fee schedule, and providers must follow billing and reimbursement rules tied to that schedule.
United States — North Carolina
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Employees may have to submit to independent medical exams, and the employer or Commission can require them in some cases.
United States — North Carolina
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No compensation is allowed for the first 7 calendar days of disability from an injury, but compensation starts immediately if the disability lasts more than 21 days.
United States — North Carolina
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For total and permanent disability cases that arose before July 1, 1973, weekly compensation payments must be increased, effective July 1, 1977, using a formula based on the number of calendar years before July 1, 1973.
United States — North Carolina
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This section sets weekly workers’ compensation rules for total disability and related claims.
United States — North Carolina
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From January 1, 1975, employers and employees covered by this Article are presumed to accept it and be bound by it, except as otherwise stated.
United States — North Carolina
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For partial incapacity from injury, the employer must pay weekly compensation to the injured employee, subject to a weekly cap and a 500-week limit.
United States — North Carolina
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Acts changing benefits in this chapter must become law by June 1 and may not take effect before January 1 of the year after ratification.
United States — North Carolina
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This section sets workers’ compensation amounts for listed injuries, using average weekly wages and fixed weeks of payment, and gives the Industrial Commission authority to award compensation in certain disfigurement and organ-injury cases.
United States — North Carolina
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An employee may try a return to work for up to nine months, and if it fails, the employee keeps the right to continuing compensation unless later terminated or suspended under the Article.
United States — North Carolina
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This section lets employers and employees use vocational rehabilitation services in compensable claims, and it sets rules for selection, approval, assessment, plans, payment, termination, and cooperation.
United States — North Carolina
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An injured employee who refuses suitable employment can lose compensation while the refusal continues, unless the Industrial Commission considers the refusal justified.
United States — North Carolina
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An employee with certain prior disabilities or injuries is entitled only to compensation for the disability caused by the later accident, as if the earlier condition had not existed.
United States — North Carolina
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An employee generally cannot receive compensation for two injuries at the same time if both are compensable and arise in the same employment, unless the later injury is a permanent injury under G.S. 97-31.
United States — North Carolina
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An employee may receive compensation for both qualifying permanent injuries, but the total cannot exceed 500 weeks and is extended in time rather than increased in weekly amount.
United States — North Carolina
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An employee, or the employee’s dependents or next of kin, may be entitled to compensation for an out-of-state accident if specified employment or business-location conditions are met.
United States — North Carolina
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If an injured employee dies from a cause other than the injury, any unpaid compensation is paid to listed survivors in a set order.
United States — North Carolina
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If a worker dies from a compensable injury or occupational disease, the employer must pay death benefits and burial expenses to eligible dependents.