---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 10.825"
title: "20"
number: "10.825"
heading: "What are the effects of exclusion?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/10.825"
---

# §10.825. What are the effects of exclusion?

- (a) OWCP may give notice of the exclusion of a physician, hospital or provider of medical services or supplies:
  - (1) All OWCP district offices;
  - (2) All Federal employers;
  - (3) The CMS;
  - (4) **The State or local authority responsible for licensing or certifying the excluded party.**
- (b) Notwithstanding any exclusion of a physician, hospital, or provider of medical services or supplies under this subpart, OWCP shall not refuse an employee reimbursement for any otherwise reimbursable medical treatment, service or supply if:
  - (1) Such treatment, service or supply was rendered in an emergency by an excluded physician; or
  - (2) **The employee could not reasonably have been expected to have known of such exclusion.**
- (c) An employee who is notified that his or her attending physician has been excluded shall have a new right to select a qualified physician.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 8102a, 8103, 8145 and 8149; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 218; Pub. L. 117-263.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 37903, June 28, 2011, unless otherwise noted.