Bureau Simplifies Rules for Peer Review of Medical Impairment Ratings

The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has proposed a rules change that would give regulators more flexibility over the peer review process for medical impairment ratings, and also announced a change to a form. The bureau periodically reviews impairment rating reports to make sure they are accurate, compete and clear. Reviewers may recommend that the rating physician reconsider his or her report. As written, Rule 0800-02-20 requires peer-review physicians to be randomly selected or selected by the bureau’s medical director. It also prohibits doctors who have had disciplina...