---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 30.725"
title: "20"
number: "30.725"
heading: "What are the effects of non-automatic exclusion?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/30.725"
---

# §30.725. What are the effects of non-automatic exclusion?

- (a) OWCP shall give notice of the exclusion of a physician, hospital or provider of medical services or supplies to:
  - (1) All OWCP district offices;
  - (2) CMS;
  - (3) All employees who are known to have had treatment, services or supplies from the excluded provider within the six-month period immediately preceding the order of exclusion; and
  - (4) **The state or local authority responsible for licensing or certifying the excluded provider.**
- (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 know 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

### Amendments

[71 FR 78534, Dec. 29, 2006, as amended at 84 FR 3059, Feb. 8, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; 42 U.S.C. 7384d, 7384t, 7384u and 7385s-10; Executive Order 13179, 65 FR 77487, 3 CFR, 2000 Comp., p. 321; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 78534, Dec. 29, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[71 FR 78534, Dec. 29, 2006, as amended at 84 FR 3059, Feb. 8, 2019]