§ 31. QME Panel Selection.
8 CA ADC § 31Barclays Official California Code of Regulations
8 CCR § 31
§ 31. QME Panel Selection.
(c) Any physician who has served as a primary treating physician or secondary physician and who has provided treatment to the employee in accordance with section 9785 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations for the disputed injury shall not perform a QME evaluation on that employee. Whenever that physician's name appears on a QME panel, he or she shall disqualify him or herself if contacted by a party to perform the evaluation. Either party may request a replacement QME for this reason pursuant to section 31.5 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations.
(d) To issue a panel in a selected specialty there shall be at least five active QMEs in the specialty at the time the panel selection is requested. In the event less than five QMEs are active in a requested specialty, the Medical Director shall contact the party who holds the legal right to designate the specialty for an alternate specialty selection.
Credits
Note: Authority cited: Sections 133, 139.2, 4061, 4062 and 5307.3, Labor Code. Reference: Sections 139.2, 4060, 4061, 4062, 4062.1, 4062.2, 4064 and 4067, Labor Code.
History
1. New section filed 8-1-94; operative 8-31-94 (Register 94, No. 31).
2. Repealer of subsection (d) and subsection relettering, and amendment of newly designated subsection (d) filed 8-23-96; operative 9-22-96 (Register 96, No. 34).
3. Amendment of subsections (b) and (d) filed 4-14-2000; operative 5-14-2000 (Register 2000, No. 15).
4. Amendment of section and Note filed 1-13-2009; operative 2-17-2009 (Register 2009, No. 3).
5. Editorial correction reinstating inadvertently deleted section (Register 2013, No. 44).
This database is current through 5/3/24 Register 2024, No. 18.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 8, § 31, 8 CA ADC § 31
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