2006 New York Code - Treatment By Physicians In Employ Of Board.

 
    §  19-b.  Treatment  by  physicians  in  employ  of  board. No doctor,
  physician or surgeon in the employ of the board shall solicit  or  treat
  any  claimant  under  this chapter, or own or operate any clinic, giving
  baking  and  massage,  physio-therapy,  or  other  treatment   to   such
  claimants.  Such  doctors,  physicians  and surgeons shall not recommend
  that a claimant be treated by any particular physician  or  surgeon,  or
  receive  baking  and massage, physio-therapy or other treatment from any
  particular person, clinic or hospital. Any such physician or surgeon may
  recommend the necessary treatment needed and the board shall direct  the
  employer  or  carrier to provide such treatment, but the board shall not
  designate a particular physician, surgeon, clinic or hospital to provide
  the treatment. The employer or  carrier  shall  furnish  the  prescribed
  treatment  and  upon  their  failure so to do within five days after the
  direction is made, the claimant may secure the same at  the  expense  of
  the  employer  or  carrier.  Any physician or surgeon so employed by the
  board who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty  of  a
  misdemeanor.
    The  foregoing  provisions  of  this section prohibiting physicians or
  surgeons in the employ of the board from recommending that a claimant be
  treated by any particular physician or surgeon shall not  be  applicable
  to  recommendations for specialist care of their patients who are or may
  be claimants under article nine of this chapter.