2021 New York Laws
WKC - Workers' Compensation
Article 2 - Compensation
13-F - 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.