N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 19-b: 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.