Which entity is explicitly listed as a potential recipient for petitions about physician changes?

• A. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
• B. The Administrative Director
• C. Industrial Medical Council
• D. Director of Industrial Relations

Answer: (B)

The Administrative Director is the designated recipient for petitions about physician changes because this office oversees medical treatment decisions within California’s workers’ compensation system. It handles requests to change treating physicians and related medical arrangements, with decisions that can later be reviewed by the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. The other entities aren’t the proper channel for filing these petitions: the Appeals Board handles appeals of decisions rather than initial petitions, the Industrial Medical Council isn’t a current filing recipient for this issue, and the Director of Industrial Relations is a different state role not tasked with processing physician-change petitions.