Section 411-512-1 - REIMBURSEMENT FOR INDEPENDENT MEDICAL EXAMINATIONSUnder 5 M.R.S. §17106-B(2), a member's representative who attends the member's independent medical examination is entitled to reimbursement of mileage and, if the representative is a health care provider, a per diem payment. The Maine Public Employees Retirement System ("the System") will make these reimbursements and payments as follows:
1. The member must identify the representative to the System in writing within 30 days after the independent medical examination. Within 60 days after the independent medical examination, the representative must provide the System with the representative's tax identification number by submitting IRS Form W-9 and any other information reasonably necessary to permit reimbursement and payment, if applicable. The member and representative will provide the System with information reasonably necessary to determine mileage and whether the representative is a health care provider.2. Mileage will be reimbursed at the standard rate set by the Internal Revenue Service.3. The health care provider per diem rate is set at $300.94-411 C.M.R. ch. 512, § 1