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K.S.A. § 44-510g (2026)

Vocational rehabilitation, agreement of employer or insurance carrier; vocational rehabilitation administrator and assistants; qualified service providers, referrals

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44-510g. Vocational rehabilitation, agreement of employer or insurance carrier; vocational rehabilitation administrator and assistants; qualified service providers, referrals. (a) A primary purpose of the workers compensation act shall be to restore the injured employee to work at a comparable wage. To this end, the director shall appoint, subject to the approval of the secretary, a specialist in vocational rehabilitation, who shall be referred to as the vocational rehabilitation administrator. No vocational assessment, evaluation, services or training shall be provided or made available under the workers compensation act unless specifically agreed to by the employer or insurance carrier providing or making available such assessment, evaluation, services or training. Upon such agreement, the vocational rehabilitation administrator may make recommendations for and supervise such assessment, evaluation, services or training on behalf of the employee and such assessment, evaluation, services or training shall not be arbitrarily terminated by the employer or insurance carrier once such agreement is entered into by the employer or insurance carrier. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the employee from obtaining such assessment, evaluation, services or training at the employee's expense from any provider or through any other public or private funding or agency. The director may appoint, subject to the approval of the secretary, assistant vocational rehabilitation administrators. The vocational rehabilitation administrator and the assistant vocational rehabilitation administrators shall be in the classified service under the Kansas civil service act. The vocational rehabilitation administrator and the assistant vocational rehabilitation administrators, subject to the direction of the vocational rehabilitation administrator, shall: (1) Continuously study the problems of vocational rehabilitation; (2) investigate and maintain a directory of all vocational rehabilitation facilities, public or private, in this state, and, where the vocational rehabilitation administrator determines necessary, in any other state; and (3) be fully knowledgeable regarding the eligibility requirements of all state, federal and other public vocational rehabilitation facilities and benefits.

(b) The director shall approve as qualified such individuals, facilities, institutions, agencies and employer programs as the director finds are capable of rendering competent vocational rehabilitation services and which are referred to in this section as "providers." The director shall continuously monitor the quality and timeliness of the services of providers found qualified by the director to provide vocational rehabilitation services. No such provider shall be approved as qualified unless the provider is equipped with such physical facilities as the director deems necessary and is staffed with personnel specifically trained and qualified, as the director deems necessary, to provide vocational rehabilitation services.

If the employer or the employer's insurance carrier do not agree to provide vocational rehabilitation services, the employee may request the vocational rehabilitation administrator to refer the employee to an appropriate provider for vocational rehabilitation services to be provided at the employee's expense. Referrals for vocational rehabilitation services shall not be made to a provider in which the employer, the employer's insurance carrier or the claims adjusting company handling the claim has a demonstrable financial interest, unless a full, written disclosure of the demonstrable financial interest has been submitted in writing by the provider to the employer, the employer's insurance carrier, any claims adjusting company handling the claim, the employee and the vocational rehabilitation administrator. Medical management or medical monitoring services shall not be considered to be providing vocational rehabilitation services and the costs thereof shall not be considered as the payment of workers compensation benefits nor medical benefits.

History: L. 1974, ch. 203, § 17; L. 1976, ch. 370, § 19; L. 1980, ch. 146, § 2; L. 1986, ch. 318, § 54; L. 1987, ch. 189, § 1; L. 1989, ch. 149, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 185, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 183, § 4; L. 1991, ch. 144, § 4; L. 1993, ch. 286, § 36; July 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 13 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1980–2022 · leading case: Fernandez v. McDonald's, 292 P.3d 311 (Kan. 2013).
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Fernandez v. McDonald's, 292 P.3d 311 (Kan. 2013). · cites it 6× “McDonald’s attempts to guide us on an indirect path to find statutory support for its proposed unauthorized alien exception, starting at tire point where the purpose of the Act is stated in K.S.A. 44-510g. It argues that the Board went astray by isolating the provisions of K.”
Murdock v. MBPXL CORP., 742 P.2d 441 (Kan. Ct. App. 1987). · cites it 8× “K.S.A. 44-510g is a comparatively new statute, having been enacted in 1974.”
Antwi v. C-E Indus. Grp., 619 P.2d 812 (Kan. Ct. App. 1980). · cites it 5× “(1) Whether the district court erred by construing K.S.A. 1979 Supp. 44-510g, the vocational rehabilitation statute of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, to require that a claimant’s permanent partial general disability rating, after successful completion of a rehabilitation…”
Brown v. City of Wichita, 832 P.2d 365 (Kan. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 3× “71 weeks of temporary total disability under K.S.A. 1991 Supp. 44-510c(b) before he retired.”
Hughes v. Inland Container Corp., 799 P.2d 1011 (Kan. 1990). “K.S.A. 1989 Supp. 44-510g(a) and (e)(1)(A) through (F).”
Cowan v. Josten's Am. Yearbook Co., 660 P.2d 78 (Kan. Ct. App. 1983). · cites it 10× “These payments are mandatory if a worker is unable to perform work for which he had previous training, education, qualification or experience (K.S.A. 44-510g[d]) and are not predicated on proof of a temporary total disability or the need for time to heal.”
Grimshaw v. L. Peter Larson Co., 691 P.2d 805 (Mont. 1984). “K.S.A. 44-510g(g). The claimant mounted a similar argument there as here: that rehabilitation benefits, being based on differing needs and purposes, should be considered separate from, and should not count against, claimant’s other benefits.”
Stout v. Stixon Petroleum, 836 P.2d 1185 (Kan. Ct. App. 1992). “nts thereto, the employee may make application for a preliminary hearing, in such form as the director may require by rules and regulations, on the issues of the furnishing of medical treatment and the payment of temporary total disability compensation and for any matter…”
Clintsman v. St. Joseph Hosp. of Concordia, 717 P.2d 1074 (Kan. Ct. App. 1986). · cites it 3× “Whether a vocational rehabilitation order made pursuant to K.S.A. 44-510g(e)(3) is appealable to the district court during the first twenty-six weeks of rehabilitation.”
Thidsorn v. Excel Corp., 8 P.3d 49 (Kan. Ct. App. 2000). “Thidsorn contends that Excel fired him under the guise of the collective bargaining agreement after he demanded an additional accommodation or a vocational referral under K.S.A. 44-510g. He further argues that Excel’s bumping process was designed to avoid liability for work…”
Williams v. Beech Aircraft Corp., 815 P.2d 1113 (Kan. Ct. App. 1991). · cites it 3× “Vocational Rehabilitation Services The district court further found that the claimant refused to participate in vocational rehabilitation services under the provisions of K.S.A. 1990 Supp. 44-510g(i). The district court erroneously concluded that the provisions of the statute…”
EagleMed v. Travelers Ins. (Kan. 2022). “Under the Act, 12 "Any health care provider, nurse, physical therapist, any entity providing medical, physical or vocational rehabilitation services or providing reeducation or training pursuant to K.S.A. 44-510g, and amendments thereto, medical supply establishment, surgical…”
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— K.S.A. § 44-510g(a) — 5 cases
Fernandez v. McDonald's, 292 P.3d 311 (Kan. 2013). “McDonald’s attempts to guide us on an indirect path to find statutory support for its proposed unauthorized alien exception, starting at tire point where the purpose of the Act is stated in K.S.A. 44-510g. It argues that the Board went astray by isolating the provisions of K.”
Hughes v. Inland Container Corp., 799 P.2d 1011 (Kan. 1990). “K.S.A. 1989 Supp. 44-510g(a) and (e)(1)(A) through (F).”
Murdock v. MBPXL CORP., 742 P.2d 441 (Kan. Ct. App. 1987). “K.S.A. 44-510g is a comparatively new statute, having been enacted in 1974.”
Cowan v. Josten's Am. Yearbook Co., 660 P.2d 78 (Kan. Ct. App. 1983). “These payments are mandatory if a worker is unable to perform work for which he had previous training, education, qualification or experience (K.S.A. 44-510g[d]) and are not predicated on proof of a temporary total disability or the need for time to heal.”
Farrell v. U.S.D. 229, 995 P.2d 881 (Kan. Ct. App. 1999).
— K.S.A. § 44-510g(d) — 1 case
Murdock v. MBPXL CORP., 742 P.2d 441 (Kan. Ct. App. 1987). “K.S.A. 44-510g is a comparatively new statute, having been enacted in 1974.”
— K.S.A. § 44-510g(e)(3) — 1 case
Clintsman v. St. Joseph Hosp. of Concordia, 717 P.2d 1074 (Kan. Ct. App. 1986). “Whether a vocational rehabilitation order made pursuant to K.S.A. 44-510g(e)(3) is appealable to the district court during the first twenty-six weeks of rehabilitation.”
— K.S.A. § 44-510g(g) — 3 cases
Grimshaw v. L. Peter Larson Co., 691 P.2d 805 (Mont. 1984). “K.S.A. 44-510g(g). The claimant mounted a similar argument there as here: that rehabilitation benefits, being based on differing needs and purposes, should be considered separate from, and should not count against, claimant’s other benefits.”
Cowan v. Josten's Am. Yearbook Co., 660 P.2d 78 (Kan. Ct. App. 1983). “These payments are mandatory if a worker is unable to perform work for which he had previous training, education, qualification or experience (K.S.A. 44-510g[d]) and are not predicated on proof of a temporary total disability or the need for time to heal.”
Murdock v. MBPXL CORP., 742 P.2d 441 (Kan. Ct. App. 1987). “K.S.A. 44-510g is a comparatively new statute, having been enacted in 1974.”
— K.S.A. § 44-510g(h) — 1 case
Murdock v. MBPXL CORP., 742 P.2d 441 (Kan. Ct. App. 1987). “K.S.A. 44-510g is a comparatively new statute, having been enacted in 1974.”
— K.S.A. § 44-510g(i) — 3 cases
Brown v. City of Wichita, 832 P.2d 365 (Kan. Ct. App. 1992). “71 weeks of temporary total disability under K.S.A. 1991 Supp. 44-510c(b) before he retired.”
Murdock v. MBPXL CORP., 742 P.2d 441 (Kan. Ct. App. 1987). “K.S.A. 44-510g is a comparatively new statute, having been enacted in 1974.”
Williams v. Beech Aircraft Corp., 815 P.2d 1113 (Kan. Ct. App. 1991). “Vocational Rehabilitation Services The district court further found that the claimant refused to participate in vocational rehabilitation services under the provisions of K.S.A. 1990 Supp. 44-510g(i). The district court erroneously concluded that the provisions of the statute…”
— K.S.A. § 44-510g(j) — 2 cases
Antwi v. C-E Indus. Grp., 619 P.2d 812 (Kan. Ct. App. 1980). “(1) Whether the district court erred by construing K.S.A. 1979 Supp. 44-510g, the vocational rehabilitation statute of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, to require that a claimant’s permanent partial general disability rating, after successful completion of a rehabilitation…”
Cowan v. Josten's Am. Yearbook Co., 660 P.2d 78 (Kan. Ct. App. 1983). “These payments are mandatory if a worker is unable to perform work for which he had previous training, education, qualification or experience (K.S.A. 44-510g[d]) and are not predicated on proof of a temporary total disability or the need for time to heal.”
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