§ 10.825 - What are the effects of exclusion?

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OWCP may give notice of the exclusion of a physician, hospital or provider of medical services or supplies:

All OWCP district offices;

All Federal employers;

The CMS;

The State or local authority responsible for licensing or certifying the excluded party.

Notwithstanding any exclusion of a physician, hospital, or provider of medical services or supplies under this subpart, OWCP shall not refuse an employee reimbursement for any otherwise reimbursable medical treatment, service or supply if:

Such treatment, service or supply was rendered in an emergency by an excluded physician; or

The employee could not reasonably have been expected to have known of such exclusion.

An employee who is notified that his or her attending physician has been excluded shall have a new right to select a qualified physician.