Board Removes Five Firms From List of IME Providers

The New York Workers' Compensation Board has barred five firms from providing any more independent medical exams. The board did not give details about why the IME firms were permanently suspended, but the actions may have been part of a routine scrubbing of the rolls. At least four of the firms have said they no longer provide the exams. The suspensions, or recissions, as the board calls them, have sparked curiosity in the New York comp world. They come seven months after a board task force ended a year of debate about extensive problems with IMEs in the state. Critics have charged ...