---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 725.706"
title: "20"
number: "725.706"
heading: "What reports must a medical provider give to OWCP?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/725.706"
---

# §725.706. What reports must a medical provider give to OWCP?

- (a) Within 30 days following the first medical or surgical treatment provided under [§ 725.701](/cfr/20/725.701.md), the provider must furnish to OWCP and the responsible operator or its insurance carrier, if any, a report of such treatment.
- (b) In order to permit continuing supervision of the medical care provided to the miner with respect to the necessity, character and sufficiency of any medical care furnished or to be furnished, the provider, operator or carrier must submit such reports in addition to those required by [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section as OWCP may from time to time require. Within the discretion of OWCP, payment may be refused to any medical provider who fails to submit any report required by this section.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 83 FR 27695, June 14, 2018, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174; 30 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 902(f), 921, 932, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 405; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 80054, Dec. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted.