Department of Labor (DOL / OWCP) Doctor in Davie & Plantation — Federal Workers’ Comp Claims

Looking for a Department of Labor doctor in Davie or Plantation? UrgentMed is an enrolled OWCP provider: a federal employee hurt on the job is seen at either clinic, seven days a week, no appointment needed. Bring your Form CA-16 authorization — or the claim number if OWCP has issued one — and the visit is billed to the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, not to you.

How a Department of Labor (OWCP) claim works at UrgentMed

Civilian federal employees injured on the job — postal workers, VA and other federal hospital staff, TSA and CBP officers, federal corrections staff, the employees of every federal agency — are covered by the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA), not by Florida’s state workers’ compensation system. FECA is administered by the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP). There is no insurance card and no private carrier: your agency authorizes the first treatment, OWCP decides the claim, and the medical bills go to OWCP’s central bill processing from a provider enrolled with OWCP.

At the front desk that means one sentence: tell us it is a federal work injury. The visit is opened under your CA-16 or claim number, the documentation OWCP expects is completed here, and the bill goes to OWCP. Nothing about a Florida claim — the DWC-25, the state adjuster, the carrier’s network — applies to you, and none of it is asked for.

The forms, in the order they matter

• CA-1 — Notice of Traumatic Injury. Filed with your agency, on paper or through ECOMP (OWCP’s online portal), within 30 days of the injury to keep your right to continuation of pay. Your supervisor completes the agency portion.
• CA-2 — Notice of Occupational Disease. For a condition that built up over more than one shift rather than from a single event.
• CA-16 — Authorization for Examination and/or Treatment. Your agency issues it — within four hours of a traumatic injury under OWCP’s rules, or within 48 hours of a verbal go-ahead — and it authorizes treatment for 60 days from the date of injury unless OWCP ends it sooner. It names the treating physician and is the document that makes the first visit billable to OWCP.
• CA-17 — Duty Status Report. Completed by the physician at the visit: diagnosis, whether you can work, and the specific restrictions if you can. Your agency uses it to place you on full, light or no duty.
• CA-20 — Attending Physician’s Report. The physician’s narrative report OWCP relies on to decide the claim — history of the injury, findings, diagnosis, and the physician’s opinion on whether the condition is work-related.

What the Department of Labor doctor visit includes

• Examination and treatment of the injury the same day, walk-in — sprains, strains, back injuries, cuts needing stitches, burns, wound care, and suspected fractures splinted on site.
• Digital X-ray at both clinics, read during the visit; lab and EKG on site when the injury calls for them.
• A work-status decision at every visit — full duty, modified duty with written restrictions, or off work — recorded on the CA-17 so your agency has it the same day.
• Medications, braces, splints and crutches provided under the claim where appropriate.
• Follow-up visits under the same claim until you are back at full duty or referred on.
• Referrals for what OWCP must authorize separately — an MRI, a surgical opinion, physical therapy — documented and requested through the claim, not done first and argued later.

Why the physician’s signature matters on a federal claim

Under FECA the word “physician” has a legal definition: physicians and surgeons, podiatrists, dentists, clinical psychologists, optometrists, chiropractors within limits, and osteopathic practitioners, within the scope of their state license. Physician assistants and nurse practitioners are not on that list, and OWCP’s appeals board has rejected claims where the only medical evidence carried their signature. It is the single most common reason a legitimate federal claim stalls. UrgentMed is physician-led, and the reports that leave here for an OWCP claim — the CA-17, the CA-20 and any narrative — carry a physician’s signature.

Continuation of pay and the 30-day window

FECA’s continuation of pay keeps your regular salary running for up to 45 calendar days of disability after a traumatic injury — but only when the CA-1 reaches your agency within 30 days of the injury. Wage loss beyond that is compensation claimed through OWCP, and both depend on the medical record: the duty-status form from each visit is what supports time off or a light-duty assignment. Keep a copy of every CA-17 you are given.

What to bring to your Department of Labor doctor visit

• Your CA-16 if your agency has issued it — or the OWCP claim number if one exists. Without either, come in anyway and tell the front desk it is a federal work injury; your supervisor can send the authorization while you are being seen.
• A photo ID.
• Your supervisor’s or agency injury-compensation specialist’s name and phone number.
• Any prior imaging, reports or forms from an earlier visit for the same injury.
• Your list of current medications and allergies.

A Department of Labor doctor in Davie and in Plantation, seven days a week

Both clinics are walk-in every day of the week. UrgentMed Davie on S University Dr, just south of Griffin Road, serves Davie, Cooper City, Weston, Southwest Ranches and Pembroke Pines; UrgentMed Plantation on Cleary Blvd near Nob Hill Rd serves Plantation, Sunrise, Tamarac, Lauderhill and Fort Lauderdale. Either clinic can be named on the CA-16, and follow-up can be at whichever is closer to work or home.

Longshore and harbor workers: a separate OWCP program

Longshore, shipyard and harbor workers are covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, a separate OWCP program with its own forms — treatment is authorized by the employer or its insurance carrier rather than under FECA. If that is your claim, call the clinic before you come in so the authorization is in hand.

Names you may see on the claim

• FECA — the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, the law your claim is under.
• OWCP — the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, the Department of Labor office that decides and pays the claim.
• ECOMP — OWCP’s online portal, where the CA-1 or CA-2 is filed and documents are uploaded.
• CA-16, CA-17, CA-20 — the authorization, the duty-status report and the attending physician’s report described above.
• OWCP medical bill processing — where an enrolled provider’s bills go; you should not receive a bill for authorized care.

The full list of workers’ compensation carriers we accept is on the category page, alongside self-pay pricing and the site-wide insurance accepted list.