Legislation Seeks to Head off DWC Effort to Remove Neuropsychology QMEs

Two California medical organizations co-sponsored a bill introduced last week that aims to remove the justification for a Division of Workers' Compensation rulemaking proposal they say could deny injured workers with head trauma access to appropriate specialists on qualified medical evaluator panels. Assembly Bill 1542, introduced Thursday, would add a clause to the Labor Code creating a QME designation for neuropsychologists as distinct from general psychologists. The legislation is a response to a rule the DWC proposed on April 3 that would eliminate the neuropsychol...