context: Moreover, because an injured employee has been legislatively granted, in mandatory language, the unmitigated right to select and change his or her primary care provider during the course of treatment for an injury, we conclude that this right is not dependent upon a showing of medical necessity.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 7 So.3d 556, 560-61
citation_a.parenthetical: stating "[u]nder the managed care statute, the managed care plan must include a provision for the employee's selection of a primary care provider," and declaring that such right is "similar and parallel" to right to change in physician contained in section 440.13(2)(f
citation_a.sentence: See Nunez v. Pulte Homes, Inc., 985 So.2d 695 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008) (concluding that statute providing injured employee mandatory right to change of physician during “the course of treatment” does not require employee to demonstrate medical necessity of change); see also Sunbelt Health Care v. Galva, 7 So.3d 556, 560-61 (Fla. 1st DCA 2009) (stating “[u]nder the managed care statute, the managed care plan must include a provision for the employee’s selection of a primary care provider,” and declaring that such right is “similar and parallel” to right to change in physician contained in section 440.13(2)(f) — a right not dependent on showing of medical necessity).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.parenthetical: concluding that statute providing injured employee mandatory right to change of physician during "the course of treatment" does not require employee to demonstrate medical necessity of change
citation_b.sentence: See Nunez v. Pulte Homes, Inc., 985 So.2d 695 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008) (concluding that statute providing injured employee mandatory right to change of physician during “the course of treatment” does not require employee to demonstrate medical necessity of change); see also Sunbelt Health Care v. Galva, 7 So.3d 556, 560-61 (Fla. 1st DCA 2009) (stating “[u]nder the managed care statute, the managed care plan must include a provision for the employee’s selection of a primary care provider,” and declaring that such right is “similar and parallel” to right to change in physician contained in section 440.13(2)(f) — a right not dependent on showing of medical necessity).