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* * * * * * * * * Agency Medical Exams Oftentimes, medical information provided by an employee, does not provide sufficient detail with which the employer might construct light duty offers, alternate duty assignments, or modifications to existing positions, that would meet the employee’s physical limitations. Key Regulatory Points to Remember Agency Medical Exams must be offered or ordered, in writing, usually by the Employing Agency’s Appointing Authority (commonly the Chief of Human Resources). 5 CFR Part 339 Key Regulatory Points to Remember Employing agencies may require an employee who has applied for, or is receiving, benefits, as a result of an on-the-job injury, to undergo a medical examination that may affect placement decisions. 5 CFR 339.301 (c) Key Regulatory Points to Remember The Agency must inform the employee in writing of the reason for the exam and consequences of failure to cooperate. 5 CFR 339.303 (a) Key Regulatory Points to Remember The Agency designates the physician, but must offer the employee the opportunity to submit medical documentation from their own physician. 5 CFR 339.303 (b) Key Regulatory Points to Remember Agency must review and consider all medical documentation submitted by employee’s physician. Notice must give the physician’s name, location, date and time of examination in order to be enforceable. 5 CFR 339.303 (b) Agency must pay for exam, ordered or offered. 5 CFR 339.304 The Agency must forward all reports and medical documentation, resulting from exams relating to on-the-job injury claims, to the Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP). The Agency must also report the failure of any workers’ compensation claimant to report for a properly ordered examination. 5 CFR 339.305 (c) Key Regulatory Points to Remember Agency Medical Examinations are not sufficient, in and of themselves, to cause OWCP to render decisions on the level of medical impairment of a workers