ACOEM, ODG Publisher Warn against State-Specific Guidelines

By Gary Roberts, CorrespondentAs Arizona, Louisiana and other states move toward adoption of home-grown medical treatment guidelines for workplace injuries, representatives for two groups that write national standards say they see warning signs that the process is being compromised by powerful interests.Most states base their treatment guidelines on national standards drafted by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) or the Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI), but in Arizona and Louisiana, state lawmakers are under pressure to draft guidelines specific to their own...