No answer here... but a question/s
1. Unrepresented applicant requests a Panel QME.
2. The list comes out.
3. Three months later the applicant becomes represented. The AA picks a Panel QME and sets the exam. No stirking of QME's he just picks one as AA.
Why is there a 90 day gap here?
The IW should have selected the QME from the panel within 10 days of the assignment... not 90 days later, or after becomming repped. That PQME appt should have been set long before the AA came on board...If the IW did not set the exam within the 10 days, defense has that right... Yes/No...?
1. Once the Panel QME list is issued, what is the latest the exam can occur?
Ie 60 days for the issuance of the list? 90 days? etc.
Thats dependant upon the Dr QME schedule. Unless this is for spinal surgery second opinion.
4062(b)...Examinations shall
be scheduled on an expedited basis. The second opinion report shall
be served on the parties within 45 days of receipt of the treating
physician's report.
At any rate, my qustion is... have Dr.AME, no longer AA'd... is the defense entitled to a Panel now... I don't want a PQME, unless the AME deferrs as out of specialty. Shouldn't an AME be set, then referred out ?
jpod... I'm still waiting for the CA to set the AME appt....