Rand Suggests DWC Streamline Mandatory Forms, Pay Docs for Completion

A report by one of the California's leading research groups — which apparently has been sitting on a shelf for the past six months — recommends that state regulators give medical providers more money for report writing, and clean up some of its duplicative requirements. Rand Corp. says that the California Division of Workers’ Compensation should eliminate redundancies on forms physicians are required to submit, and it should increase fee schedule allowances — or in some cases create them — to ensure doctors are adequately compens...