Appellate Court Clarifies PTP Election

The Second Appellate District, Division Three, has issued a ruling declaring that where an injured employee has been released from care by the primary treating physician with a need for future medical care, the employee MUST go through 4061/4062 procedures BEFORE changing primary treating physicians. In Tenet/Centinela Hospital Medical Center vs. Carolyn Rushing and WCAB (5/18/00)(2000 Daily Journal D.A.R. 5251) the Court held that 'where the employee has been discharged and there is a dispute, 'no other primary treating physician shal be identified unless and until the dispute is resolved'. ...