Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

The insurer must pay the following costs for medical treatment for an injury, whether provided at 1 time or at different times—

for medical treatment by a registered person—the cost that the insurer accepts as reasonable, having regard to the relevant table of costs;

for nursing, medicines, medical or surgical supplies, curative apparatus, crutches or other assistive devices given to the worker otherwise than as an in-patient at a hospital—the cost that the insurer accepts as reasonable.

The insurer’s liability for the cost of medical treatment by a registered chiropractor or a registered osteopath extends only to the cost of treatment involving the manipulation, mobilisation and management of the neuromusculoskeletal system of the human body.