CWCI Study of IMR Shows Increasing Growth of System

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.