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SB 863 Kept Extra Payments for Spinal Implants Alive for a Year

By Greg Jones (Senior Editor)

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 | 13

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefThe seven procedures for which California's spinal-surgery implant pass-through was preserved last year cost insurers and employers an average of nearly 75% more than the seven procedures for which the pass-through was eliminated. Those numbers, taken from California Workers' Compensation Institute data, illustrate the enormous amount of money that was at stake in legislation at the center of the U.S. Justice Department's bribery charges against state Sen. Ron Calderon. Although the Division of Workers' Compensation eliminated regulatory langu...

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