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Injured Workers, Doctors Criticize Insurers' 'Culture of Delay'
- State: Connecticut
- Topic: Top
- - Popular with: Legal
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In the backyard of some of the largest workers' compensation insurers in the country, a group of…
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Dr Feb 13, 2020 a 1:02 pm PST
In California we often see delayed treatment secondary to Utilization Review denials of prescribed treatment (including diagnostic studies). The perpetrators of Utilization Review do not have a Duty of Care under the law whereas treating doctors do. Is that also the case in Connecticut?
Robert L. Weinmann MD
Editor, www.politicsofhealthcare.com