Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 656 § 656.245 — authorizes the payment of temporary disability compensation.

authorizes the payment of temporary disability compensation. Thereafter, temporary disability compensation shall be paid at least once each two weeks, except where the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services determines that payment in installments should be made at some other interval. The director may by rule convert monthly benefit schedules to weekly or other periodic schedules. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if a self-insured employer pays to an injured worker who becomes disabled the same wage at the same pay interval that the worker received at the time of injury, such payment shall be deemed timely payment of temporary disability payments pursuant to ORS 656.210 and 656.212 during the time the wage payments are made. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, when the holder of a public office is injured in the course and scope of that public office, full official salary paid to the holder of that public office shall be deemed timely payment of temporary disability payments pursuant to ORS 656.210 and 656.212 during the time the wage payments are made. As used in this subsection, “public office” has the meaning for that term provided in ORS 260.005. (d) Temporary disability compensation is not due and payable for any period of time for which the insurer or self-insured employer has requested from the worker’s attending physician or nurse practitioner authorized to provide compensable medical services under ORS 656.245 verification of the worker’s inability to work resulting from the claimed injury or disease and the physician or nurse practitioner cannot verify the worker’s inability to work, unless the worker has been unable to receive treatment for reasons beyond the worker’s control. (e) If a worker fails to appear at an appointment with the worker’s attending physician or nurse practitioner authorized to provide compensable medical services under ORS 656.245, the insurer or self-insured employer shall notify the worker by certified mail that temporary disability benefits may be suspended after the worker fails to appear at a rescheduled appointment. If the worker fails to appear at a rescheduled appointment, the insurer or self-insured employer may suspend payment of temporary disability benefits to the worker until the worker appears at a subsequent rescheduled appointment. (f) If the insurer or self-insured employer has requested and failed to receive from the worker’s attending physician or nurse practitioner authorized to provide compensable medical services under ORS 656.245 verification of the worker’s inability to work resulting from the claimed injury or disease, medical services provided by the attending physician or nurse practitioner are not compensable until the attending physician or nurse practitioner submits such verification. (g)(A) Temporary disability compensation is not due and payable pursuant to ORS 656.268 after the worker’s attending physician or nurse practitioner authorized to provide compensable medical services under ORS 656.245 ceases to authorize temporary disability or for any period of time not authorized by the attending physician or nurse practitioner. No authorization of temporary disability compensation by the attending physician or nurse practitioner under ORS 656.268 shall be effective to retroactively authorize the payment of temporary disability more than 45 days prior to its issuance. (B) Subparagraph (A) of this paragraph does not apply: (i) During periods in which there is a denial under the jurisdiction of the Workers’ Compensation Board that affects the worker’s ability to obtain authorization of temporary disability; (ii) During periods in which there is a dispute over the identity of, or treatment by, an attending physician or nurse practitioner that affects the worker’s ability to obtain authorization of temporary disability; or (iii) When notice has not been given pursuant to paragraph (j) of this subsection. (h) The worker’s disability may be authorized only by a person described in ORS 656.005 (12)(b)(B) or 656.245 for the period of time permitted by those sections. The insurer or self-insured employer may unilaterally suspend payment of temporary disability benefits to the worker at the expiration of the period until temporary disability is reauthorized by an attending physician or nurse practitioner authorized to provide compensable medical services under ORS 656.245. (i) The insurer or self-insured employer may unilaterally suspend payment of all compensation to a worker enrolled in a managed care organization if the worker continues to seek care from an attending physician or nurse practitioner authorized to provide compensable medical services under ORS 656.245 that is not authorized by the managed care organization more than seven days after the mailing of notice by the insurer or self-insured employer. (j)(A) The