Regulatory Compliance

CorVel is a national provider of industry leading workers’ compensation solutions to Oregon payors. Incidents and injuries can be reported to our 24/7 call center, to the online claims system or via mobile apps. Reports are immediately processed by our proprietary rules engine where medical management begins immediately as needed, and the claim is assigned to a Claims Adjuster within one business day or less of initial receipt.

Our comprehensive return to work program ensures collaboration and communication with all interested parties including the injured worker, employer, human resources, medical and safety teams, and healthcare providers.  We use technology, compassionate case management for employees and cost containment measures, to give Oregon employers a superior program.

Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division updates 01/01/2025

Description: Oregon has released the following bulletins and orders:

• Bulletin 315- Provides guidance for Spanish language required to be included on various letters Bulletin 315
• Bulletin 345- Increases the maximum reimbursement amount for accepted, non-disabling claims to $2500 Bulletin 345
• Bulletin 393- Provides annual increase and calculation amount for Retroactive Program benefits Bulletin 393
• Order 01-2024- Requires updated denial and appeal language on to simplify and improve readability. Also updates attorney fee amounts on settlement proceeds. 1-2024 Order of Adoption

Oregon Regulatory Updates 02/17/2025

Oregon SB 837 – Digest: the Act Changes the Health Care Volunteer Registry Known As Serv-Or. the Act Allows More Types of People to Join and Allows For the Use of Volunteers Outside of a Declared Emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Modifies Laws Governing the Emergency Health Care Provider Registry to Allow a Broader Range of Volunteer Services and Allow Deployment of Volunteers Outside of Declared Emergencies. Requires the Oregon Health Authority to Provide Workers’ Compensation Coverage For Volunteers Who Provide Services In Other States Pursuant to Certain Interstate Agreements.

Issues: Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 01/16/2025

This measure allows the Oregon Health Authority (Authority) to establish a volunteer registry that includes health care workers and health care personnel to provide public health and supportive services on a volunteer basis. This measure requires the Authority to provide workers’ compensation coverage for individuals registered as volunteers if the injury occurs: (1) while performing services at the direction of the Authority; (2) while engaged in training or approved by the Authority to prepare them for services; or (3) while the individual is performing services at the direction of the Authority in another state where such services are required due to an emergency in that state. This measure takes effect January 1 after enacted.

Most Recent Update:

• 01/17/2025 – Introduced; Referred to Senate Committee on Health Care

HB 2745 – Digest: the Act Would Set the Time By Which Benefits Would Have to Be Paid to a Worker When the Employer Is Being Investigated For Not Complying With Workers’ Comp Law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Provides the Timeline For Payment of Temporary Disability Compensation During an Investigation of the Compliance of the Worker’s Employer With Workers’ Compensation Law. Declares an Emergency, Effective on Passage.

Issues:  Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 01/16/2025

This measure requires the first installment of temporary disability compensation to be paid no later than the 14th day after the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services (Director) has notice or knowledge of an investigation of the employer’s compliance and of the worker’s disability if the authorized attending physician or nurse practitioner authorizes the payment for services. Temporary disability compensation must be paid biweekly unless the director determines a different interval.
This measure takes effect upon passage.

Most Recent Update:

• 01/13/2025 – Prefiled

HB 2791 – Digest: the Act Would Make Changes to Provisions of Workers’ Comp Law That Deal With the Timing of a Worker’s Claim and the Worker’s Engagement In Training. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Allows a Worker to Receive Permanent Disability Payments and Complete the Appeal of a Notice of Closure While Engaged In Training. Allows the Redetermination of a Worker’s Permanent Total Disability Compensation After Ceasing to Engage In Training. Allows a Worker to Postpone the Selection of a Training Program and Engagement In the Program Until After Claim Closure Becomes Final.

Issues: Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 01/17/2025

This measure allows a worker to delay choosing and starting a training program until their claim is closed and any appeals are resolved. Additionally, this measure does not prevent:

• an injured worker can request payment for permanent partial disability after starting and actively participating in a training program.
• a worker from completing the appeal of a closure notice while actively participating in a training program.

This measure goes into effect on January 1 after enacted.

Most Recent Update:

• 01/13/2025 – Prefiled

SB 445 – Digest: the Act Would Let Saif Form or Acquire Subsidiaries. the Act Would Let Saif or a Subsidiary Provide Managed Care to Injured Workers. the Act Would Require the Department of Consumer and Business Services to Make an Annual Audit of the Managed Care That They Provide. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Authorizes the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to Form or Acquire Subsidiaries to Perform any Function the Corporation May Delegate Under Law. Authorizes the Corporation or a Subsidiary to Provide Managed Care Services to Injured Workers. Sets Forth the Membership and Duties of the Board of Directors That Governs a Subsidiary. Requires an Annual Audit of the Managed Care Services Provided By the Corporation or a Subsidiary. Takes Effect on the 91St Day Following Adjournment Sine Die.

Issues:  Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 01/16/2025

This measure allows the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation (SAIFC) to form or acquire a subsidiary corporation to perform any function of the SAIFC that may be delegated to the subsidiary. The SAIFC or a subsidiary may: (1) provide managed care services to injured workers; (2) authorize self-insured employers or other insurers to use such managed care services on reasonable terms; and (3) solicit and coordinate with medical service providers to provide medical services to injured workers. This measure takes effect 91 days after adjournment.

Most Recent Update:

• 01/17/2025 – Referred to the Senate Labor and Business Committee

SB 606 – Digest: the Act Would Add Certain Health Care Workers to Those Whose Stress Disorders Give Rise to a Presumption That a Workers’ Comp Claim Is Compensable. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Adds Certain Health Care Employees to the List of Workers For Whom Certain Stress Disorders Give Rise to a Presumption That a Workers’ Compensation Claim Is Compensable As an Occupational Disease.

Issues: Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 01/16/2025

This measure includes the following as covered employees:

• A full-time paid employee of the Oregon State Hospital who has direct contact with patients.
• A full-time paid employee of the Department of Human Services who works at the Stabilization and Crisis Unit.

This goes into effect January 1 after enacted.

Most Recent Update:

• 01/17/2025 – Introduced; Referred to Senate Committee On Labor and Business

SB 705 – Digest: the Act Would Add to Workers’ Comp Law a Floor of Pay Per Week For Temporary Total Disability That the Worker Must Get. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Provides an Alternative Weekly Minimum Amount of Workers’ Compensation Benefits For Temporary Total Disability.

Issues:  Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 01/16/2025

This measure provides that if a worker’s average weekly wage from the prior 52 weeks is less than or equal to the average weekly wage, the worker will receive 100% of the worker’s average weekly wage from the prior 52 weeks. This applies to temporary total disability compensation that becomes payable for periods that begin on or after January 1, 2026. This goes into effect January 1 after enacted.

Most Recent Update:

• 01/17/2025 – Introduced; Referred to Senate Committee On Labor and Business

HB 3374 – Digest: the Act Would Let Saif Form or Acquire Subsidiaries. the Act Would Let Saif or a Subsidiary Provide Managed Care to Injured Workers. the Act Would Require the Department of Consumer and Business Services to Make an Annual Audit of the Managed Care That They Provide. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Authorizes the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to Form or Acquire Subsidiaries to Perform any Function the Corporation May Delegate Under Law. Authorizes the Corporation or a Subsidiary to Provide Managed Care Services to Injured Workers. Sets Forth the Membership and Duties of the Board of Directors That Governs a Subsidiary. Requires an Annual Audit of the Managed Care Services Provided By the Corporation or a Subsidiary. Takes Effect on the 91St Day Following Adjournment Sine Die.

Issues: Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 01/30/2025

This measure amends existing law to authorize the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation (SAIF) to form subsidiaries to perform any function the corporation may delegate under law, provide managed care services to injured workers, and more. This measure provides that the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may form or acquire a subsidiary corporation to perform any function delegated to them. They may:

• Provide managed care services to injured workers
• Authorize self-insured employers or other insurer to use such managed care services on such terms as the Corporation deems reasonable
• Solicit and coordinate with medical service providers to provide medical services to injured workers

Provides that a subsidiary corporation formed or acquired by the Corporation will be governed by a board of five directors appointed by the Governor to establish the policies for the operation of the subsidiary. This measure requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services must conduct an annual audit of the Corporation or their subsidiary that provides managed care services to injured workers to insure that they have sufficient separation between claims processing operations and the provision of managed care services to injured workers. This measure will take effect 90 days after adjournment.

Most Recent Update:

• 01/28/2025 – Introduced

SB 946 – Digest: the Act Would Let the Duty-Related Costs of the Head of Boli Be Paid Out of the Workers’ Benefit Fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Authorizes the Payment Out of the Workers’ Benefit Fund of the Expenses of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries In Carrying Out the Commissioner’s Statutory Duties.

Issues:  Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 01/31/2025

The Worker’s Compensation Fund will be used for the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industry’s expenses to carry out worker’s comp duties.  This measure goes into effect on January 1 after enacted.

Most Recent Update:

• 01/28/2025 – Introduced; Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Business; Referred to Joint Committee on Ways and Means

Oregon Regulatory Updates 04/11/2024

SB 1580 – Digest: the Act Would Make It a Crime For an Employer to Report False Data In Order to Lower Its Workers’ Comp Premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Creates the Crime of Fraudulent Misrepresentation By an Employer to an Insurer of Certain Employee-Related Data With the Intent to Decrease the Employer’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Premium. Punishes By a Maximum Fine of $125,000 Plus Specified Forms of Restitution. Declares an Emergency, Effective on Passage.

Issues: Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 02/16/2024

This measure makes it a Class A misdemeanor for an employer to knowingly submit a false payroll report to the Workers’ Compensation Board, the Department of Business Services, the corporation, or an insurer.  It takes effect upon enactment.

Most Recent Update:

03/27/2024 – This measure was signed by Governor Tina Kotek (D) on March 27. It takes effect March 27, 2024.

Additional Outlook: The February 12 amendment changes the measure’s scope to submitting false payroll reports and makes it a Class A misdemeanor.

SB 1584 – Digest: the Act Removes Two Bases For a Worker to Refuse a Job Without Losing Workers’ Comp Benefits. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Deletes Two Bases For a Worker to Refuse an Offer of Modified Employment Without Losing Temporary Total Disability Benefits.

Issues:  Workers’ Compensation (General)

Summary For 02/05/2024

This measure removes two allowed justifications for an injured employee refusing to return to work without disrupting temporary total disability benefits. Namely, it removes the justification for the employment not being with the previous employer or not being at the previous worksite.

Most Recent Update:

03/07/2024 –  This measure failed upon adjournment of the legislature on March 7. This measure is ineligible for further consideration.

Oregon Services

• Workers’ compensation claims administration
• Medical bill review in compliance with state requirements
• Local PPO development and management
• Case management services

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