Accreditation Group Takes Aim at Texas Rehab Study

Eight months after Texas regulators released a study showing no difference in outcomes for accredited versus non-accredited rehabilitation providers, an international accreditation group is taking issue with the report's findings and methodology. The Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, or CARF International, "respectfully questions the scope and validity of the study, and, therefore, the resulting recommendation to drop the provider accreditation preference and to pay all rehab services the same amount," the organization wrote in a letter to WorkCompCen...