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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-670" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this Part XI of this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Disabled” means rendered unable as the result of an accidental personal injury or an occupational disease to perform work for which the person was previously qualified.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Suitable gainful employment” means employment, including self-employment, that restores the disabled covered employee, to the extent possible, to the level of support at the time of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>if an accidental personal injury, the accidental personal injury; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>if an occupational disease, disablement from the occupational disease.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Vocational assessment” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>collecting and analyzing each of the economic, educational, legal, medical, social, and vocational circumstances of a disabled covered employee, including the present mental and physical ability of the covered employee to participate in vocational rehabilitation services; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>determining the appropriate vocational rehabilitation services reasonably necessary to return the disabled covered employee to suitable gainful employment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Vocational rehabilitation services” means professional services reasonably necessary during or after or both during and after medical treatment to enable a disabled covered employee, as soon as practical, to secure suitable gainful employment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Vocational rehabilitation services” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>coordination of medical services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>vocational assessment;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>vocational evaluation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>vocational counseling;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>vocational rehabilitation plan development;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>vocational rehabilitation plan monitoring;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>vocational rehabilitation training;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>job development; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>job placement.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
