App. Attorneys Surprised as Employer Appeals IMR Decision

California applicants' attorneys haven't been happy with the independent medical review process mandated by SB 863, and several times have sought to overturn unfavorable IMR decisions, with mixed results. Now, it seems, at least one employer has a beef with the process too. An IMR doctor in May issued a determination that applicant Kirk Crump had a valid medical need for an H-Wave machine – a device that provides a therapeutic form of electrical muscle stimulation – for his chronic shoulder pain from an industrial injury. His self-insured employer, the City of Sacramento,...