§ 13-f. Payment of medical fees. (1) Fees for medical services shall
be payable only to a physician or other qualified person permitted by
sections thirteen-b, thirteen-k, thirteen-l and thirteen-m of this
chapter or other authorized provider of health care under the education
law or the public health law permitted to render medical care or
treatment under this chapter, or to the agent, executor or administrator
of the estate of such physician or such other qualified person. Except
as provided in section thirteen-d of this chapter, no provider of health
care rendering medical care or treatment to a compensation claimant,
shall collect or receive a fee from such claimant within this state, but
shall have recourse for payment of services rendered only to the
employer under the provisions of this chapter. Any compensation claimant
who pays a fee to a provider of health care for medical care or
treatment under this chapter shall have a cause of action against such
provider of health care for the recovery of the money paid, which cause
of action may be assigned to the chair in trust for the assigning
claimant. All such assignments shall run to the chair. The chair may sue
the physician, or other authorized provider of health care as herein
described on the assigned cause of action with the benefits and subject
to the provisions of existing law applying to such actions by the
claimant himself or herself. Hospitals shall not be entitled to receive
the remuneration paid to physicians on their staff for medical and
surgical services.

(2) Whenever his attendance at a hearing is required, the physician of
the injured employee shall be entitled to receive a fee from the
employer, or carrier, in an amount to be fixed by the board in addition
to any fee payable under section eight thousand one of the civil
practice law and rules.