New York Laws
Article 2 - Compensation
13-AA - Medical Appeals Unit.

(b) prescribe rules and regulations to govern the procedure of
investigations and hearings by the medical societies or boards of
charges against authorized physicians and licensed compensation medical
bureaus, laboratories and bureaus engaged in x-ray diagnosis or
treatment, in clinical diagnosis or in physiotherapy or other
therapeutic procedures, as provided in section thirteen-d and thirteen-e
of this chapter;
(c) review, upon request, charges made by a physician, compensation
medical bureau or laboratory or bureau engaged in x-ray diagnosis or
treatment, in clinical diagnosis, or in physiotherapy or other
therapeutic procedures, that any medical society or board has improperly
refused to recommend authorization of the physician, compensation
medical bureau or laboratory or bureau to do compensation work, and if
it sustain the charges, recommend such authorization to the chairman;
(d) review, upon request, charges made by a physician, compensation
medical bureau or laboratory or bureau engaged in x-ray diagnosis or
treatment, in clinical diagnosis, or in physiotherapy or other
therapeutic procedures, that any medical society or board has improperly
recommended that his or its authorization to do compensation work be
revoked, and if it sustain the charges, recommend to the chairman that
such authorization not be revoked.
In each case arising under this subdivision the medical appeals unit
may re-open the matter and receive further evidence, and its decision
and recommendation shall be advisory to the chairman and shall not be
binding or conclusive upon him.
4. The medical appeals unit shall adopt rules and regulations to
govern its own proceedings. The secretary of the medical appeals unit
shall keep a complete record of all the proceedings of the unit which

shall show the names of the members present at each meeting and every
matter considered and the action taken thereon. Such records shall be
filed in the office of the secretary of the board.
5. The provisions of sections nineteen-a and nineteen-b of this
chapter limiting and restricting professional activities of physicians
or surgeons in the employ of the board shall also be applicable to and
binding upon members of the medical appeals unit.
6. For the purpose of exercising the powers and performing the duties
set forth in this section, the medical appeals unit created hereunder
shall be deemed to be a continuation of the medical appeals unit of the
industrial council of the department of labor; and all proceedings
pending before the medical appeals unit of the industrial council of the
department of labor, are hereby transferred to the medical appeals unit
without prejudice to the rights of any party to such proceeding.
The medical appeals unit, subject to the provisions of this chapter,
shall succeed to all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of the
medical appeals unit of the industrial council, insofar as they relate
to workmen's compensation.
Wherever the term "medical appeals unit of the industrial council"
appears in this chapter or in the rules or regulations promulgated
thereunder, it shall be construed to mean the medical appeals unit
created hereunder.

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