What the panel ordered
The Board affirmed the WCJ's decision that the applicant could select a new treating physician and was entitled to the recommended further medical treatment.
The Board granted reconsideration of the Findings and Award of October 5, 2000, which found applicant properly selected a new treating physician and was entitled to further medical treatment.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The Board concluded that where there is an existing award of medical treatment, the injured worker is entitled to reasonable changes of treating physicians without following sections 4061 and 4062 procedures, and the treatment by the new physician was reasonable and necessary.
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The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
There was an existing award for continuing medical treatment.