Applicants’ attorneys and some physicians have long criticized utilization review and independent medical review as tools that employers and insurers use to deny needed medical treatment to injured workers. That issue is coming to a head as utilization-review provider EK Health and the State Compensation Insurance Fund await an appellate court decision deciding whether a trial can proceed against them alleging that they unfairly denied the use of a specific treatment for injured workers.
The treatment is H-Wave, a form of electronic stimulation which California’s chronic pai...
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