I would like to thank you all for informative advice it sure ease-up my mind and I called my Postmaster this morning and when I told him is this your way of harassing me he's response was ok submit every six months, since we were walked-out how could he say it will terminate my accommodations when I was not accommodated, by the way it was in writing with signature confirmation it's a threatening letter to me and when I told him it will cost Post Office money he kind of changed his mind. I informed my claim examiner, leave message to injury comp. as well. Really thanks so much. Everyday I always read this site and it sure help us.

CA-810 2-2.D; The supervisor may send Form CA-17 to the physician at reasonable intervals (but not more often than once a week)...

Limited-
I was told by injury comp that every time you see your doctor you should put in a new CA-17. If they want one every month give it them. Just make appt with doctor every month and remember to submit mileage too. I would also write a letter to OWCP and tell them USPS is requiring that you see your doctor every month,add names, send a copy to injury comp and I bet this requirement stops. Put everything in writing...Oh and you could request that PM put this in writing too.

Limited... i do not have the regs off hand, but do know that PM tried this with me... i have a note from PO injury comp stating that ca-17 is to be submitted periodicaly, which would be every 3 months.. furthermore, i would think that you might be able to file a greivance on past practices, to show PM always requested it every 6mos in the past and this was sufficent... to stop this harassment, because that is what it is, you can have your dr write a note stating "restrictions remain unchanged for ......, refer to ca-17 dated ......." then make a copy of the ca-17 and submit... if you don't see your dr every 30 days, then write a note to PM that, you will submit a ca-17 next time you see your dr.... dr should always write on ca-17... restrictions remain until next appointment... you can possibly look in EL-505 on submitting ca-17.. not sure thou

Can they require Limited Duty to provide CA17 every 30 days or else they will terminate your benefits, because used to be every six months, now Postmaster giving us a hard time to submit CA17 or termination of Limited Duty Status, please give us some info. we were walked out for NWA under NRP.

Dave-
Your link now works. I checked it out and will get back to it as soon as I have enough time and patience to read what you have to say. Right now my attention span only tolerates short posts. Good Luck with your endeavors I hope you are successful in changing things for the better.

john999-
Yeah I found I have to be proactive with ACS billing. They say they are supposed to send the bill back to the doctor when something is missing. Most often they scan it into the system an never notify the Dr. So you can call with just the date of service and they can look back in the system to see why bill was not processed or paid.

john999.. i would call acs and see if maybe the hospital wrote in a wrong code or something... the past 2 yrs, i have had a few problems becuase of a minor thing wrong on the paperwork... i call acs and they usually tell me what the problem is to get it corrected... hopefully the hospital wrote that it was related to your work injuries?????

If they denied payment, perhaps it was because theire was no claim number with which to reference payment.
I finally got a claim for an FEHB treatment I once had and I told my FEHB Plan to bill the OWCP ( no ACS back then ) and they would be able to get their money.
I honestly admit, I have a few "bugs" to work out on the idea of seeing an FEHB Plan doctor until a good doctor can be found. I by no means am attempting to pass myself off as having discovered a "magic pill" or anything unreasonable as a means to help other claimants.
I don't care to add anything to their troubles. I just want to discover the "next best thing" concerning immediate medical treatment.

Dave

Edited by author 11-01-2009 01:24 PM
I don't know what my problem is but try this: http://www.quicktopic.com/42/H/BKvscr9mxvX.

I hope this works so I can get busy reaching people who want to improve their FECA claims experiences.

Dave Kirtley

p.s. Please excuse my typing, my 5 hand surgeries seem to get in the way at every opportunity.

put a / between 35 and H and you will end up right back from where you came... I think leave alone and he'll go away..

Sorry Dave your link isn't working. It says "Sorry, the page you're looking for wasn't found."

john999-
Why did they deny payment?

Go to: http://www.quicktopic.com/35H/gdheSZgbF5c. This should be the place and I Welcome Everyone and Anybody.

Dave Kirtley

I went to the hospital because of a flareup of an injury and told them to charge it to OWCP. OWCP denied payment.

Dave-
You say you have a quick topic forum but I can't find it. You need to post a link somewhere for us to reach it.