Occ Docs Propose Ways to Improve UR Quality

One reason utilization review bogs down is because providers requesting treatment and agents conducting the review have difficulty contacting each other to exchange information, according to a group of occupational medicine physicians. But the group has proposed a solution, as one part of a package of wide-ranging recommendations to improve the quality of California’s workers’ compensation system. The Western Occupational & Environmental Medical Association, or WOEMA, last month released a white paper entitled, “Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement in the Californi...