Michigan vocational rehabilitation billing —
MCL 418.319, and the 52-week clock.
MCL 418.319 gives the injured worker up to 52 weeks of vocational rehabilitation, extendable, delivered by providers on the agency’s approved list. Accident Fund and the private carriers pay — and nobody counts the weeks on your behalf.
The facts, before the pitch.
How billing works in Michigan
- Who you bill
- The carrier.
- What you send
- Invoice.
- The channel
- Direct.
- Fee basis
- No published rate we have verified. Ask the Michigan Workers' Disability Compensation Agency before anyone quotes you one — including us.
- The clock
- Not a deadline we have verified for Michigan. Ask the Michigan Workers' Disability Compensation Agency, and read the payer’s own contract, before you rely on a date.
The system. Agency-listed approved VR facilities and providers; benefits run up to 52 weeks, extendable.
Where the rules are written. MCL 418.319.
Configured for Michigan during onboarding — see it with your caseload. Your rates, your forms, your payers and your folder names are set up in your first week, included in every plan. What is on this page is what we would configure; we have not claimed a single Michigan customer anywhere on it.
Your week, in Michigan’s documents.
A statutory ceiling measured in weeks rather than dollars, which is a harder thing to notice creeping up.
- 8:05 a.m.Week 31 of a retraining case. Progress check with the program.The week count is on the file, not in your head, and it moves whether or not you look at it.
- 10:55 a.m.Employer contact and a return-to-work discussion.Two entries, both timed, both feeding the same monthly report.
- 1:30 p.m.Extension request drafted for a case approaching 52 weeks.Billable time; and the reason for the request is already in the file, dated.
- 4:20 p.m.Invoice to the carrier, itemized, with the log behind it.A receivable from the day it leaves, aged by payer rather than by feeling.
Every one of those rows is typed once, as it happens. The daily log writes itself as you go, the weekly narrative log builds in your own Word template, a CMS-1500 fills with the right units and the right payer block where a payer wants one — and where your state bills on its own form or an invoice, the dated, timed, priced lines that go on it come off the grid, and the receivable is tracked from the moment the bill leaves. The whole chain →
Fifty-two weeks is easy to lose track of and expensive to discover late.
Michigan measures the vocational rehabilitation entitlement in weeks, extendable. That is a slower clock than a dollar cap and a much easier one to be surprised by, because nothing about your Tuesday tells you which week the case is in.
Put the case start on the file and the count is simply there, next to the work. An extension request written in week 44 is a different document from one written in week 53, and the file is what proves which one you filed.
The agency lists approved vocational rehabilitation facilities and providers. Being on the list is the beginning; the record is the rest.
Who pays you in Michigan.
Accident Fund and the AF Group carry a great deal of Michigan, with the national carriers behind them. No fee schedule we have verified — you bill your rate, itemized.
Michigan payers
- Accident Fund / AF Group
- Private carriers
National carriers you will meet
- Travelers
- The Hartford
- AmTrust
- Zurich
- Chubb
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Liberty Mutual
- AF Group / Accident Fund
- Old Republic
- Great American
TPAs that send the referrals
- Sedgwick
- Gallagher Bassett
- ESIS
- Helmsman
- Broadspire
- CorVel
- TRISTAR
- CCMSI
- Athens Administrators
One check, many claimants. Whichever of these names is on the envelope, the check covers a dozen files at once. You record it once, tick the bills it pays, and anything short is flagged with the exact gap and the original form attached, ready to rebill. How that screen works.
Billing addresses and submission preferences go stale faster than any page can keep up, so we publish them only where we keep them current — today that is Ohio’s nine MCOs. Your Michigan payers and their submission preferences get set up during onboarding, from your own files.
Where the rules actually live.
Ask the Michigan Workers' Disability Compensation Agency for
- the current text of MCL 418.319
We have not published a verified link set for Michigan yet, and we would rather send you nowhere than somewhere out of date. If you have the current documents, send them over — admin@onservice.us.
How we keep this page honest
Every fact above is transcribed from the Michigan Workers' Disability Compensation Agency or the statute named, dated July 2026, and reviewed when the agency republishes. Where we have not verified something we say so rather than filling the gap.
Found something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it the same week: (302) 202-3172 or admin@onservice.us.
See a Michigan caseload run itself.
Fifteen minutes, Michigan’s codes on screen, with a caseload that looks like yours. Or start the trial and poke around on your own — no card, no contract.
There is a phone number and a person answers it: (302) 202-3172.
States that work like Michigan
Questions, answered.
Does it track the 52-week entitlement?
The case start date lives on the file, so the elapsed week is visible next to the work rather than calculated when somebody asks. Extensions are documented in the same file, dated.
Is there a Michigan fee schedule for vocational work?
Not one we have verified, which is why no rate appears on this page. You bill your own, consistently, with itemization behind it.
Where is the approved-provider list?
Ask the Workers’ Disability Compensation Agency. We have not confirmed a current published address and will not link a stale one.
Can it produce a CMS-1500 if a payer wants one?
Yes — with automatic overflow past six service lines and a receivable per form. Most Michigan work invoices instead, and it does both from the same entries.
How long does onboarding take?
Most practices are working within the first week. It is included in every plan, and it is where your templates, folders, payers and rates get set up.
See your own week run itself.
We load your state’s codes before the call, so you are looking at a caseload like yours inside the first two minutes — not a slide deck.