YourVoice.Now Summary
Workers & JobsMore care choices for federal workers hurt on the job — workers' comp would cover more than doctors.
Workers & Jobs
Federal workers' comp pays for care from doctors and a short list of other providers. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are not on that list, and the bill would add them.
A claim must come with a signed note saying how bad the injury is and how long it may last. Today a physician must sign that note, but a nurse practitioner or physician assistant could sign instead.
The Labor Department can order an injured worker to sit for an exam. They may bring their own provider along. That could be a nurse practitioner or physician assistant.
More about this bill
If you work for the federal government and get hurt on the job, your treatment options would grow. A nurse practitioner or physician assistant could treat you. Federal workers' compensation would pay for that care. Today the program's list of covered providers leaves both of them out. Those providers could also sign the medical statement a claim needs. You could bring one to an exam the Labor Department requires. Each could work only within what state law allows them to do. The Labor Department would have six months after this becomes law to finish the rules.
Congressional Summary
Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025This bill expands the role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in providing services to injured federal workers under the federal workers' compensation program.Specifically, under the program, nurse practitioners and physician assistants acting within the scope of their practice may (1) prescribe or recommend treatment for injured federal workers; (2) certify the nature of an injury and probable extent of disability; (3) provide prescribed treatment for injured federal workers; and (4) participate, with a physician designated by the Department of Labor, in a mandatory workers' compensation examination of an injured worker. In general, only physicians may fulfill these roles under current law.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 343.
- Action Date
- 2025-12-04
- Date Added
- 2026-04-09
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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