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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Entitlements and related matters - Treatment

73: Payment of treatment providers for acute treatment

You could also call this:

“How ACC helps pay for urgent medical care after an accident”

When you need treatment for an injury covered by this law, you don’t have to pay for all of it yourself. The treatment we’re talking about here is called ‘acute treatment’. This means it’s for immediate care, not long-term treatment. It’s also not a public health service.

You only have to pay part of the bill. The other part, called an ‘entitlement’, is paid for you. You don’t have to worry about paying this part.

The person treating you (like a doctor or nurse) can get paid for the ‘entitlement’ part in two ways. They might have an agreement with someone to pay for treating injuries covered by this law. If they do, they’ll ask that person for the money. If they don’t have an agreement like this, they’ll ask the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) to pay.

This helps make sure you can get the treatment you need without having to pay the full cost yourself.

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Part 4 Entitlements and related matters
Treatment

73Payment of treatment providers for acute treatment

  1. In this section, treatment means treatment that—

  2. is treatment of a type that the Corporation is liable to provide under this Act; and
    1. is acute treatment; and
      1. is not a public health acute service.

        1. A claimant is not liable to pay that part of the treatment provider's fee that is an entitlement.

        2. A treatment provider who wishes to seek payment of the part of the fee that is an entitlement must seek it—

        3. from the person specified in arrangements the treatment provider has made for being paid for treating people suffering personal injury covered by this Act; or
          1. if the treatment provider has not made any such arrangements, from the Corporation.

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