If you have been approved for workers’ compensation benefits including wage loss and medical benefits you are eligible to receive medical treatment for your injuries. You are not required to pay any deductibles, co-pays, or other fees for any of your medical treatments related to your work injury or illness. In fact, you are even entitled to mileage to and from the doctor’s office, along with reimbursements for parking fees and other costs incurred when visiting your doctor. While you will be seeing an authorized workers’ compensation physician, you are allowed to refuse any invasive or non-invasive procedure, however, you cannot choose any medical procedure you want. What you can do is ask for a second opinion if you feel you are being forced into having a surgical procedure or other invasive procedure you are not comfortable with. If another physician also recommends the procedure and you refuse, you could conceivably lose your workers’ compensation benefits, so it is always a good idea to speak with an experienced Athens workers’ compensation attorney.