Reed v. St. Francis Medical Center

j,St. Francis Medical Center appeals a judgment finding that it failed to reasonably controvert its employee Marcella Reed’s request to change her treating orthopedic surgeon, and imposing a penalty of $2,000 and attorney fee of $5,000. The Workers’ Compensation Judge (“WCJ”) focused solely on the disparate accounts of Ms. Reed’s office visit of April 10, 2007, to Dr. Brian Bulloch, her chosen orthopedic surgeon, and accepted Ms. Reed’s recollection of the incident. In spite of the WCJ’s credibility call, we find no proof of medical necessity to obtain a change of physician in the chosen…