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AGENDA ITEM REVIEW FORM |  |
3.B.
PSPRS - Police
- Meeting Date:
- 07/03/2019
- Submitted By:
- Kay Macuil, City Attorney, Attorney's Office
ITEM:
Discussion and possible action on any and all matters regarding designating a physician or physicians to a medical board and adopting that medical board. (Edgardo Carbajal, Human Resources Coordinator).
SUMMARY:
The Board has the power to appoint a medical board (ARS 38-847(D)((9) authority is highlighted in the first attachment). The purpose of a medical board is to determine disability for benefits or determine pre-existing conditions or other disqualifying circumstances. (ARS 38-859 the second attachment explains the purpose of the medical board. ARS 38-844(D) list the disqualifying circumstances.)
ARS 8-859(B) explains that the physicians the board designates cannot be physicians regularly contracted by the City of San Luis when the physician is determining whether a member is disabled for purposes of receiving the plan benefit. However, for purposes of determining whether a pre-existing condition or other disqualifying circumstance exists, the physician may be regularly contracted by the city. Here is the wording of ARS 8-859(B):
"For the purpose of determining a disability, the medical board shall be composed of a designated physician or physicians working in a clinic other than the employer’s regular employee or contractee. Employees employed after October 1, 1992 shall undergo a medical examination for the purpose of identifying a physical or mental condition or injury that existed or occurred prior to a member’s date of membership in the system and for which benefits may otherwise be limited by § 38-844, subsection D, and for this purpose, the medical board shall be composed of a designated physician or physicians working in a clinic that may be the employer’s regular employee or contractee."
Arizona Peace Officer Standard Training (AzPOST) requirement is that the physicians be AzPOST certified.
Staff recommends the AzPOST certified physicians of Pinnacle Health Care, Urgent Care Health Centers, Bruce Carter, M.D. and James Black, M.D.
ARS 8-859(B) explains that the physicians the board designates cannot be physicians regularly contracted by the City of San Luis when the physician is determining whether a member is disabled for purposes of receiving the plan benefit. However, for purposes of determining whether a pre-existing condition or other disqualifying circumstance exists, the physician may be regularly contracted by the city. Here is the wording of ARS 8-859(B):
"For the purpose of determining a disability, the medical board shall be composed of a designated physician or physicians working in a clinic other than the employer’s regular employee or contractee. Employees employed after October 1, 1992 shall undergo a medical examination for the purpose of identifying a physical or mental condition or injury that existed or occurred prior to a member’s date of membership in the system and for which benefits may otherwise be limited by § 38-844, subsection D, and for this purpose, the medical board shall be composed of a designated physician or physicians working in a clinic that may be the employer’s regular employee or contractee."
Arizona Peace Officer Standard Training (AzPOST) requirement is that the physicians be AzPOST certified.
Staff recommends the AzPOST certified physicians of Pinnacle Health Care, Urgent Care Health Centers, Bruce Carter, M.D. and James Black, M.D.
RECOMMENDATION / SUGGESTED MOTION:
I MOVE TO DESIGNATE PHYSICIANS BRUCE CARTER, M.D. AND JAMES BLACK, M.D. AND RATIFY USING THEM FOR THE PRE-MEMBERSHIP EXAMS OF VICENTE TORRES, RAFAEL LIZARDE, AND JOSE PEREDA AND ADOPT THOSE PHYSICIANS AS THE MEDICAL BOARD.