The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has announced that Dec. 22, 2003 was the official publication date for the "ACOEM Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines: Evaluation and Management of Common Health Problems and Functional Recovery in Workers, second edition."
Recently enacted Senate Bill 228 added Section 4604.5 (c) to the California Labor Code, requiring that three months after their publication date, ACOEM's updated guidelines "shall be presumptively correct on the issue of extent and scope of medical treatment." March 22, therefore, will be th...
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