The Director, OWCP, through the district directors and their
designees, shall actively supervise the medical care of an injured
employee covered by the Act. Such supervision shall include:
(a) The requirement that periodic reports on the medical care being
rendered be filed in the office of the district director, the frequency
thereof being determined by order of the district director or sound
judgment of the attending physician as the nature of the injury may
dictate;
(b) The determination of the necessity, character and sufficiency of
any medical care furnished or to be furnished the employee, including
whether the charges made by any medical care provider exceed those
permitted under the Act;
(c) The determination of whether a change of physicians, hospitals
or other persons or locales providing treatment should be made or is
necessary;
(d) The further evaluation of medical questions arising in any case
under the Act, with respect to the nature and extent of the covered
injury, and the medical care required therefor.
[38 FR 26861, Sept. 26, 1973, as amended at 50 FR 402, Jan. 3, 1985]
