39-71-1011. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Board of rehabilitation certification" means the nonprofit, independent, fee-structured organization that is a member of the national commission for health certifying agencies and that is established to certify rehabilitation practitioners.
     (2) "Disabled worker" means a worker who has a permanent impairment, established by objective medical findings, resulting from a work-related injury that precludes the worker from returning to the job the worker held at the time of the injury or to a job with similar physical requirements and who has an actual wage loss as a result of the injury.
     (3) "Rehabilitation benefits" means benefits provided in 39-71-1003, 39-71-1006, and 39-71-1025.
     (4) "Rehabilitation plan" means an individualized plan that assists a disabled worker in acquiring skills or aptitudes to return to work through job placement, on-the-job training, education, training, or specialized job modification and that reasonably reduces the worker's actual wage loss.
     (5) "Rehabilitation provider" means a rehabilitation counselor certified by the board for rehabilitation certification and designated by the insurer to the department or a department of public health and human services counselor when a worker has been certified by the department of public health and human services under 39-71-1003.
     (6) "Rehabilitation services" means a program of evaluation, planning, and implementation of a rehabilitation plan to assist a disabled worker to return to work.

     History: En. Sec. 34, Ch. 464, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 333, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 64, Ch. 613, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 574, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 22, Ch. 243, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 108, Ch. 546, L. 1995.