The number of independent medical review determination letters fell to a five-year low in 2019 and continued to fall through the first quarter of 2020, the California Workers’ Compensation Institute reported.
The 163,899 IMR determination letters issued in 2019 was down 11.2% compared to the 184,735 issued in 2018. The 2018 totals were the highest since the program created by Senate Bill 863 went into effect in 2013, and more than three times initial estimates that there would be about 60,000 IMR decisions per year.
Total IMR volume last year was lower than all years except 2014, the f...
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