The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a quadriplegic worker could not be ordered out of the long-term acute care facility without the reasonableness and necessity of his continued stay being subjected to utilization review.
Case: Burgess v. WCAB (Patterson-UTI Drilling Co.), No. 778 C.D. 2019, 05/01/2020, published.
Facts and procedural history: James Burgess worked for the Patterson-UTI Drilling Co. In December 2012, he suffered severe injuries that left him quadriplegic.
Patterson accepted liability for the injuries.
Burgess has resided at a long-term acut...
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