WV Treatment Guidelines Ineffective, Lack Enforcement

Its one thing to have treatment guidelines, but its another to enforce them. That's what the West Virginia lawmakers have found out based on an audit presented yesterday by the state's Legislature Performance Evaluation and Research Division. West Virginia went through a sweeping reform of its workers' compensation system last year, and a part of the 260+ page bill was the adoption of treatment and disability guidelines last year to govern how long someone receiving workers' compensation remains off the job. The audit shows some workers exceed those guidelines by as much as three months, an...