N.C. Latest State to Eye Evidence-Based Treatment Guidelines

Officials with the North Carolina Industrial Commission are exploring whether the evidence-based medical treatment guidelines used in the Texas workers’ compensation system would work in their state. Industrial Commission Chairman Andrew Heath confirmed that he met with Ryan Brannan, Texas’ new workers’ compensation commissioner, last month when Heath traveled to Austin for the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s annual compliance conference. North Carolina has no medical treatment guidelines in place now, although its Workers’ Compensation Act explicitly ...