The California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee will consider three workers’ compensation bills today, including one that would exclude certain medical treatment requests from being eligible for utilization review.
Senate Bill 563, authored by Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, and sponsored by the California Medical Association, would establish that utilization review is prohibited for:
Treatments proposed solely to maintain an injured worker’s current health care regimen due to a preexisting injury.
Treatment requests already approved on the grounds of medical ne...
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