The California Division of Workers' Compensation's proposed guidelines for treating chronic pain would limit the use of spinal cord stimulators and could lead to the denial of payment for drug pumps.
The DWC has received 39 public comments — mostly from anesthesiologists — protesting its limited support for spinal cord stimulators and lack of support for implanted drug pumps in its proposed guidelines for chronic pain treatment.
Those protests made up the majority of the 69 comments the division received on its proposal, which would update the Medical Treatment Utilizatio...
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