WCRI: Treatment Guidelines and Their Uses Are All Over the Map

While 23 states have adopted workers’ comp medical treatment guidelines, there’s a wide variation in the guidelines themselves as well as how they are used, according to a new report that also attempts to measure their restrictiveness. The Workers Compensation Research Institute on Tuesday released a “national inventory” of treatment guidelines and utilization management. WCRI called the survey-based study the first of its kind for workers’ comp. “Although the intention of systemwide guideline adoption is to achieve effective and consistent care at rea...