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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-660" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In addition to the compensation provided under this subtitle, if a covered employee has suffered an accidental personal injury, compensable hernia, or occupational disease the employer or its insurer promptly shall provide to the covered employee, as the Commission may require:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>medical, surgical, or other attendance or treatment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>hospital and nursing services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>crutches and other apparatus; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>artificial arms, feet, hands, and legs and other prosthetic appliances.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The employer or its insurer shall provide the medical services and treatment required under subsection (a) of this section for the period required by the nature of the accidental personal injury, compensable hernia, or occupational disease.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as provided in § 9–736(b) and (c) of this title, any award or order of the Commission under this section may not be construed to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>reopen any case; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>allow any previous award to be changed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A provider who provides medical service or treatment to a covered employee under subsection (a) of this section shall submit to the employer or the employer’s insurer a bill for providing medical service or treatment within 12 months from the later of the date:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>medical service or treatment was provided to a covered employee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the claim for compensation was accepted by the employer or the employer’s insurer; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the claim for compensation was determined by the Commission to be compensable.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The employer or the employer’s insurer may not be required to pay a bill submitted after the time period required under paragraph (1) of this subsection unless:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the provider files an application for payment with the Commission within 3 years from the later of the date:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>medical service or treatment was provided to the covered employee;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the claim for compensation was accepted by the employer or the employer’s insurer; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the claim for compensation was determined by the Commission to be compensable; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Commission excuses the untimely submission for good cause.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
