DWC Posts Proposed QME Rules to Forum

The California Division of Workers' Compensation proposed an informal draft of rules that would clarify eligibility requirements for qualified medical evaluators and establish parameters for listing offices as remote-only office locations. Other provisions in the regulations that the division posted to its online forum for a 10-day comment period would revise timelines relating to how the agency responds to applications and administers QME placement exams. The proposed rules would require providers applying to serve as QMEs to declare under penalty of perjury that they have not previousl...