Gov. Brown Should Sign the Neuropsych Bill

If you suffered a traumatic head or spinal cord injury at work, you would need to be evaluated by a neuropsychologist, not a psychologist. But as of Sept. 1, the chance of getting that evaluation became almost impossible in California. That’s because the state Division of Workers’ Compensation adopted a regulation that abolished any recognition of neuropsychologists as qualified medical evaluators and moved them anonymously into the larger QME pool of clinical psychologists. Assembly Bill 1542, which I co-authored with Assembly Member Ken Cooley, will restore neurops...