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Does the insurance company or the employer pay your salary if you have to go to the doctor during working hours?
lond hours
Is it legal for your employer to ask who your doctor is?
It is not illegal for your employer to ask who your doctor is. It is illegal for your doctor to give out your information without your consent. Many places of employement require a letter of recent phyical as a requirement of employment. The doctor's signature would be on the form.
Do you have to go to a workers comp doctor?
THis question can not be answered without knowing the state. Every state has different w/c laws, some allow you to see your own doctor, some require you to see a doctor chosen by the employer, some allow you to see your doctor for a time, then switch to one required by your employer.
Who are possible employer for doctor?
yes
Can an employer force heavy lifting if a doctor restricted it?
No they can not if you have a letter from doctor
Can an earache come and go?
Please go see a doctor, or nurse practictioner.
If you were injured at work can you go to your own physicians?
Typically, after you are injured at work, an employer will send you to the doctor that is covered by their worker's compensation insurance.
How come you become a doctor in New York?
go to college.
Can an employer call an employees doctor and ask if they have issued a fit note?
HIPAA prohibits your employer from contacting your doctor directly. The emplopyer can comple YOU to get the info from your doctor or can hire a doctopr to contact your doc.
Is an employer legally allowed to ask an employee why he orshe is calling out sick?
They can try to call them, but the doctor is not allowed to give out any information about you. The doctor might be able to say "yes s/he came in today"/"no s/he didn't come in". But the doctor is not allowed to give out the reason why you went in, since this would be a breach of the Doctor-Patient Confidentiality and therefore illegal. In summary- The doctor can say whether you have seen him/her on that day. But the doctor cannot tell the employer why, if you did, you went to see the doctor, unless the doctor has your permission to do so.
Will you be in jeopardy from a hair follicle test from an employer even though you are on authorized medication from your Doctor?
Not if you have such signed information to give. You may have to give permission for the employer to call the doctor who prescribed it.
Can your employer ask for your doctor's name and appointment time?
yes
