---
title: "Record which Queensland forum can hear a refusal to fund a procedure"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/check-which-forum-can-review-a-refusal-to-fund-treatment/queensland"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-WC20261023-12-QLD"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["QLD"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Record which Queensland forum can hear a refusal to fund a procedure

> From the refusal and any claim decision, using a firm-controlled tool, mark a section 232P service-request refusal or a section 232R payment-request refusal as reviewable, and mark the page's particular-procedure…

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Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | From the refusal and any claim decision, using a firm-controlled tool, mark a section 232P service-request refusal or a section 232R payment-request refusal as reviewable, and mark the page's particular-procedure example as non-reviewable. Do not decide that the treatment is payable. |
| What the lawyer must review | You decide whether the refusal can be reviewed, and in which forum. Do not send the page's particular-procedure example to review. A section 232P or 232R refusal is reviewable. A non-reviewable decision may be an Industrial Magistrate appeal. You choose that path. Use a firm-controlled tool. Check ASCR r 9, APP 11 and any notifiable breach. |
| Written for | Queensland |
| Applies to | [Check which forum can review a refusal to fund treatment](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/check-which-forum-can-review-a-refusal-to-fund-treatment.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The lawyer chooses the forum. The tool applies only the examples on the opened pages.

- What the AI does: From the refusal and any claim decision, using a firm-controlled tool, mark a section 232P service-request refusal or a section 232R payment-request refusal as reviewable, and mark the page's particular-procedure example as non-reviewable. Do not decide that the treatment is payable.
- What the lawyer does: Make the legal assessment, check the source material and authorise the output for its intended use.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. If the refusal is a section 232P service request or a section 232R payment request, mark it reviewable. Otherwise mark the page's particular-procedure example as non-reviewable.
2. If the decision allows, rejects, terminates or suspends the claim, mark the 3-month review.
3. Do not say the treatment must be paid.

## Notes

- Health, wage and scheme records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Check ASCR r 9, APP 11, and whether a disclosure is notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
- The review page gives a decision not to fund a particular medical procedure as an example of a decision that is not reviewable, and says some non-reviewable decisions may be appealed to an Industrial Magistrate. Section 540(1) makes a refusal of a section 232P service request, or a section 232R payment request, reviewable. Those requests are in chapter 4A, not the page's example. Section 548(2) defines a non-reviewable decision as an insurer's decision under chapter 3 or 4 that section 540(1) does not list, other than a decision about additional lump sum compensation under section 193A. Section 548A(2)(c) makes an industrial magistrate the appeal body for a non-reviewable decision, and Form 67 is filed in the Magistrates Court. A decision to allow or reject a claim, or to terminate or suspend payment of compensation, is reviewable. Section 542 sets the review time.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Forum for a Queensland treatment-funding refusal

**Deliverable**: A forum note: review, or the non-reviewable example. No decision that treatment is payable.

**Inputs**

- The refusal
- The date it was received
- Any separate decision allowing or rejecting the claim

**Example**: Illustrative example: The insurer has accepted the claim and later refuses one operation. The note marks that refusal as the page's example of a decision that is not reviewable. It is not a section 232P or 232R request. It does not say the operation must be funded.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The document is not a decision about funding or about the claim.
- The output would decide that the treatment is payable.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [WorkSafe Queensland: independent review of insurer decisions](https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/workers-compensation/independent-review-of-insurer-decisions) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Queensland Industrial Relations Commission: workers' compensation](https://www.qirc.qld.gov.au/workers-compensation) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Complaint to the Independent Review Office about a workers compensation or CTP insurer](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/nsw-iro-insurer-complaint.md) | Letter | Yellow | Letter for a complaint to the New South Wales Independent Review Office about a workers compensation insurer or a CTP insurer, with the two pathways kept apart. |
| [Covering letter for a Workplace Injury Commission conciliation application](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/vic-wic-conciliation-covering-letter.md) | Letter | Yellow | Covering letter sent with a Workplace Injury Commission Application for Conciliation. The worker or an authorised helper completes the form, and the tool does not sign it. |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*