The Division of Workers’ Compensation denied a petition from the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association to require that employers who have a medical provider network send records and billing information to an employee-selected treating physician.
The division said in a decision published in the July 28 Notice Register that it could not revise its rules as recommended by CAAA because doing so would blur the distinction between an employer-selected doctor and an employee-selected doctor that is set in statutes governing the rights of an injured worker to change treati...
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