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Do I still get paid if I have to leave work to attend a doctor appointment regarding my work injury?

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If you are required to miss work to attend doctors' appointments, physical therapy or other medical appointments then you are to be reimbursed for the time you miss from work.  Iowa Code § 85.27(7) provides that when an employee attends medical appointments he/she "shall be paid an amount equivalent to the wages lost at the employee's regular rate of pay for the time the employee is required to leave work.

For purposes of this subsection, “day of incapacity to work” means eight hours of accumulated absence from work due to incapacity to work or due to the receipt of services pursuant to this section. The employer shall make the payments under this subsection as wages to the employee after making such deductions from the amount as legally required or customarily made by the employer from wages. Payments made under this subsection shall be required to be reimbursed pursuant to any insurance policy covering workers' compensation."