2006 New York Code - Payment Of Medical Fees.

 
    §  13-f.  Payment of medical fees. (1) Fees for medical services shall
  be payable only to a physician or other qualified  person  permitted  by
  sections  thirteen-b,  thirteen-k,  thirteen-l  and  thirteen-m  of this
  chapter or other authorized provider of health care under the  education
  law  or  the  public  health  law  permitted  to  render medical care or
  treatment under this chapter, or to the agent, executor or administrator
  of the estate of such physician or such other qualified person.   Except
  as provided in section thirteen-d of this chapter, no provider of health
  care  rendering  medical  care  or treatment to a compensation claimant,
  shall collect or receive a fee from such claimant within this state, but
  shall have recourse  for  payment  of  services  rendered  only  to  the
  employer under the provisions of this chapter. Any compensation claimant
  who  pays  a  fee  to  a  provider  of  health  care for medical care or
  treatment under this chapter shall have a cause of action  against  such
  provider  of health care for the recovery of the money paid, which cause
  of action may be assigned to  the  chair  in  trust  for  the  assigning
  claimant. All such assignments shall run to the chair. The chair may sue
  the  physician,  or  other  authorized provider of health care as herein
  described on the assigned cause of action with the benefits and  subject
  to  the  provisions  of  existing  law  applying  to such actions by the
  claimant himself or herself. Hospitals shall not be entitled to  receive
  the  remuneration  paid  to  physicians  on  their staff for medical and
  surgical services.
    (2) Whenever his attendance at a hearing is required, the physician of
  the injured employee shall  be  entitled  to  receive  a  fee  from  the
  employer,  or carrier, in an amount to be fixed by the board in addition
  to any fee payable  under  section  eight  thousand  one  of  the  civil
  practice law and rules.