Treatment Guides Trigger more than 200,000 Variance Requests

The adoption of medical treatment guides mandated by the workers' compensation reforms signed into law by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in 2007 triggered 202,643 requests for variances through Feb. 4, 2012, the Workers Compensation Research Institute reported Wednesday.WCRI released its sixth annual report on the impact of the Spitzer reforms in New York and reported that, despite the increase in medical disputes, medical costs have remained relatively stable since Spitzer signed the reforms into law on March 13, 2007.The Spitzer reforms capped the duration of benefits for permanent p...