§ 19-b. Treatment by physicians in employ of board. No doctor,
physician or surgeon in the employ of the board shall solicit or treat
any claimant under this chapter, or own or operate any clinic, giving
baking and massage, physio-therapy, or other treatment to such
claimants. Such doctors, physicians and surgeons shall not recommend
that a claimant be treated by any particular physician or surgeon, or
receive baking and massage, physio-therapy or other treatment from any
particular person, clinic or hospital. Any such physician or surgeon may
recommend the necessary treatment needed and the board shall direct the
employer or carrier to provide such treatment, but the board shall not
designate a particular physician, surgeon, clinic or hospital to provide
the treatment. The employer or carrier shall furnish the prescribed
treatment and upon their failure so to do within five days after the
direction is made, the claimant may secure the same at the expense of
the employer or carrier. Any physician or surgeon so employed by the
board who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.

The foregoing provisions of this section prohibiting physicians or
surgeons in the employ of the board from recommending that a claimant be
treated by any particular physician or surgeon shall not be applicable
to recommendations for specialist care of their patients who are or may
be claimants under article nine of this chapter.