* § 13-k. Care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed\npodiatrists. 1. When the term "chairman" is hereinafter used, it shall\nbe deemed to mean the chair of the workers' compensation board of the\nstate of New York.\n 2. An employee injured under circumstances which make such injury\ncompensable under this article, when care is required for an injury to\nthe foot which injury or resultant condition therefrom may lawfully be\ntreated by a duly registered and licensed podiatrist of the state of New\nYork, may select to treat him or her any podiatrist authorized by the\nchair to render podiatric medical care, as hereinafter provided. If the\ninjury or condition is one which is without the limits prescribed by the\neducation law for podiatric medical care and treatment, or the injuries\ninvolved affect other parts of the body in addition to the foot, the\nsaid podiatrist must so advise the said injured employee and instruct\nhim or her to consult a physician of said employee's choice for\nappropriate care and treatment. Such physician shall thenceforth have\noverall supervision of the treatment of said patient including the\nfuture treatment to be administered to the patient by the podiatrist. If\nfor any reason during the period when podiatric medical treatment and\ncare is required, the employee wishes to transfer his or her treatment\nand care to another authorized podiatrist he or she may do so, in\naccordance with rules prescribed by the chair, provided however that the\nemployer shall be liable for the proper fees of the original podiatrist\nfor the care and treatment he or she shall have rendered. The chair\nshall prepare and establish a schedule for the state, or schedules\nlimited to defined localities, of charges and fees for podiatric medical\ntreatment and care, to be determined in accordance with and to be\nsubject to change pursuant to rules promulgated by the chair. Before\npreparing such schedule for the state or schedules for limited\nlocalities the chair shall request the podiatric medicine practice\ncommittee to submit to him or her a report on the amount of remuneration\ndeemed by such committee to be fair and adequate for the types of\npodiatric medical care to be rendered under this chapter, but\nconsideration shall be given to the view of other interested parties.\nThe amounts payable by the employer for such treatment and services\nshall be the fees and charges established by such schedule.\n 3. (a) No claim for podiatry care or treatment shall be valid and\nenforceable as against the employer or employee unless within\nforty-eight hours following the first treatment the podiatrist giving\nsuch care or treatment furnish to the employer and directly to the chair\na preliminary notice of such injury and treatment, within fifteen days\nthereafter a more complete report and subsequent thereto progress\nreports as requested in writing by the chair, board, employer or\ninsurance carrier, at intervals of not less than three weeks apart or at\nless frequent intervals if requested on forms prescribed by the chair.\nThe board may excuse the failure to give such notices within the\ndesignated periods when it finds it to be in the interest of justice to\ndo so.\n (b) Upon receipt of the notice provided for by paragraph (a) of this\nsubdivision, the employer, the carrier and the claimant each shall be\nentitled to have the claimant examined by a qualified podiatrist\nauthorized by the chair in accordance with section thirteen-b and\nsection one hundred thirty-seven of this chapter, at a medical facility\nconvenient to the claimant and in the presence of the claimant's\npodiatrist, and refusal by the claimant to submit to such independent\nmedical examination at such time or times as may reasonably be necessary\nin the opinion of the board shall bar the claimant from recovering\ncompensation for any period during which he or she has refused to submit\nto such examination.\n (c) Where it would place an
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