May 27, 2025

What To Know About Choosing Medical Care in a Workers’ Compensation Case

Name: Choosing Medical Care in a Workers' Compensation Case
Uploaded: 2025-05-27T19:29:57+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Description: This video explains the "two doctor rule" in Illinois workers' compensation cases, which allows injured workers to choose two doctors—and any specialists those doctors refer them to—for treatment covered by workers' compensation.

Video Transcript:

If your doctor is within that two doctor referral or two doctor choice and the referral from doctor thereof, you’re entitled to have those medical bills paid for that treatment. In workers compensation in the state of Illinois, you have a two doctor rule. You’re allowed to choose two doctors of your choice and any doctor that they send you to. So there’s a chain. You can see doctor number one and any doctor they send you to is one chain. And you see doctor number two and any doctor they send you to is your second chain.

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