Court Rules Ketamine Treatments Properly Compensated

The Delaware Supreme Court on Thursday found that the state properly paid for an injured employee’s ketamine infusion treatments despite her claim that the payments were insufficient under the state’s workers' compensation medical fee schedule. Melissa Taylor was injured while working for the state in 2016 and subsequently received 23 state-compensated ketamine infusions for pain management. Ketamine’s use for pain management is being closely watched by the workers' comp industry. The court, in affirming a decision by the Industrial Accident Board and the Superior C...