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CWCI Study of IMR Shows Increasing Growth of System

5/17/2019

 
Link to CWCI Research Update by Rena David and Robby Bullis: "Independent Medical Review Decisions from January 2014 through December 2018".
  • More than 184,000 IMR requests flooded California’s workers ‘compensation system in 2018.
  • Interestingly, requests that were initially approved but modified, comprised a fair proportion the IMR requests.
  • IMR physicians upheld Utilization Review (UR) modifications and denials nearly 90% of the time.
  • The Bay Area and San Diego led with the largest increase in the number of requests and percentage growth respectively.

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