A study released Wednesday by the California Workers' Compensation Institute says that 96% of requests for medical treatment are ultimately approved within the state’s workers’ compensation system, a finding the authors say contradicts claims that the system results in “a wholesale denial of care.”
The CWCI study found that carriers paid 84.7% of medical services without a request for authorization or utilization review. Those services include initial treatment of an injury such as stitches or an X-ray, the authors said in an interview.
Looking at the requests tha...
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