Effective date: May 1, 2024
Application: Applies to all injury claims.
Policy subject: Health care services – general
Purpose:
To establish the guiding principles of the Continuum of Care Model.
Continuum of Care Model means a framework for the efficient and coordinated planning and provision of health care and return-to-work plans appropriate to each stage of a worker’s injury and recovery.
Medical aid, also referred to as health care, means “the provision of medical and surgical aid, of hospital and professional nursing services, of chiropractic and other treatment and of prosthetics or apparatus” (Section 2(1)(v) of The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013 (the “Act”).
General Principles
Level I Assessment and Treatment (Primary)
Level II (Secondary) and Level III (Tertiary) – Advanced Assessment
Level II (Secondary) and Level III (Tertiary) – Advanced Treatment
The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013
2(1)(v), 19(1), 51, 53, 55, 56, 58(1);
The Saskatchewan Employment Act
(1) POL 08/2014, Continuum of Care (effective July 1, 2014 to April 30, 2024.)
(2) POL 04/96, Early Intervention Program (effective April 1, 1996 to June 30, 2014).
(3) April 1, 1996. New policy.