Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) An employer liable
to pay medical and health expenses compensation or miscellaneous expenses
compensation for a service provided to a worker (a compensable service ) may
discharge the employer’s liability to pay that compensation by paying to
the provider of the service the whole or any part of the outstanding cost of
the service.
(2) If payment to the
provider of a compensable service of the whole or any part of the cost of the
service remains outstanding, the provider has the same rights to recover the
outstanding amount from the employer as the worker has to recover medical and
health expenses compensation or miscellaneous expenses compensation for the
service.
(3) The
employer’s liability to compensate the worker, and the worker’s
liability to pay the provider, for the cost of a compensable service is
discharged to the extent of any amount paid by or recovered from the employer
as provided by this section.
(4) A dispute about
the amount that a provider of a compensable service is entitled to recover
from an employer under this section may be dealt with under Part 6.