Users Question Gov's Call for Study of 6th Edition of AMA Guides

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s call for a study of different versions of impairment ratings guidelines in a weekend veto message has some system users asking, “What’s the point?” A study of differences in the fifth and sixth editions of the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, which Brown directed while vetoing Assembly Bill 479, isn’t necessary to address the problems that the governor found with the bill, observers say. It is also widely accepted that the sixth edition of the guides produces m...