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Vendor's Low Pay to Doctors Raises Questions about Quality

By Greg Jones (Senior Editor)

Thursday, February 7, 2013 | 10

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefCalifornia attorneys, doctors and advocates for injured workers are concerned about the quality of independent medical review decisions because of the low pay being offered to doctors by the Division of Workers' Compensation's new vendor, Maximus Federal Services.Senate Bill 863 created independent medical review in the California workers' comp system as a way to move disputes over treatment decisions from workers' compensation judges to medical professionals. The provisions in the bill say an IMR decision to approve or deny a recommended trea...

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