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Department of Labor and Industry Rulemaking Docket

Contact person: Contact the person listed for each rule in the table below for additional information about the planned rule, to
receive rule notices, to receive rule drafts if available, to provide comments, or to view comments or requests for hearing that
have been submitted. Comments and questions may also be submitted by U.S. mail, to the contact person listed below, at:
Department of Labor and Industry, 443 Lafayette Road N., St. Paul, MN 55155. Comments received after 4:30 p.m. will be
considered received on the next state business day the Department of Labor and Industry is open.

Rule Title and citation:

Workers’ compensation treatment parameter amendments; Minn. Rules, parts 5221.6020 to 5221.8900
Subject matter The Department of Labor and Industry is considering adopting additional treatment parameters for
drugs commonly used to treat workers’ compensation injuries and long-term use of narcotic
analgesics for enduring, intractable pain. Other amendments are also being considered, including
updating definitions for traction technologies, electrical muscle stimulation and manual therapy
modalities. Other updates and technical corrections to existing parameters will also be considered.
Contact person All written comments, questions and Telephone questions and comments about the
requests should be sent to Carrie Rohling substance of the possible amendments may be
by mail at 443 Lafayette Road, St. Paul, directed to Dr. William Lohman at 651-284-5275
MN 55155, by phone at 651-284-5217, by (available on Tuesdays and Thursdays).
fax at 651-284-5275, or by e-mail at
Carrie.Rohling@state.mn.us.
Published notices and A Request for Comments was published in the State Register on August 28, 2006 at
comment periods www.comm.media.state.mn.us/bookstore/stateregister/31_09.pdf

Availability of rule draft(s)
(Contact Carrie Rohling in
one of the ways listed above
to be placed on a list to
receive notice of availability
of rule drafts.)
Public comment is encouraged and will be accepted until further notice of rule proceedings is
published in the State Register.
A preliminary draft of rules governing non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, opioid analgesics, and
muscle relaxants is available at:
www.doli.state.mn.us/pdf/rulemaking_5221_trtm_par_medication_rule070207.pdf.
A preliminary draft of rules governing long term use of opioid analgesics is available at:
www.doli.state.mn.us/pdf/rulemaking_5221_trtm_par_chronopiates_draft071007.pdf.
A preliminary draft of rules governing spinal cord stimulators and intrathecal drug delivery systems
is available at:
www.doli.state.mn.us/pdf/rulemaking_5221_trtm_par_spinalcordstim_idds.pdf

A preliminary draft of other changes to the treatment parameters is available at:

www.doli.state.mn.us/pdf/rulemaking_5221_trtm_par_other_draft101206.pdf

Requests for hearing; Date
and place of hearing
Timetable/status of the rule
proceeding; agency
determinations.
NOTICE: The next meeting of the Medical Services Review Board, which is tentatively scheduled
for January 17, 2008, will include discussion of the draft rules on spinal cord stimulators and
intrathecal drug delivery systems (See below for more information on the next meeting of the
Medical Services Review Board).
N/A
The Medical Services Review Board (MSRB), in consultation with Dr. William Lohman, the
department’s medical consultant, is developing recommendations for the treatment parameters. The
dates of MSRB meetings are listed at: www.doli.state.mn.us/msrb.html. Check the MSRB website
to confirm meeting dates and cancellations.

*The next MSRB meeting is tentatively scheduled for January 17, 2008 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at the
Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry.
Date the rule was filed with N/A
Secretary of State, and the
effective date of the rule as
adopted.

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