Evidence-Based Medicine Can Be Hazardous to Your Health, by Robert G. Rassp, Esq. The current trend across the country is to require evidence-based medicine for treatment of employees who are injured on the job. Statutory and regulatory mandates are emerging on a state-by-state basis. Stakeholders within the workers' compensation community are not that familiar with the term "evidence-based medicine" or "EBM" and how it applies in establishing medical treatment for injured workers.

This article provides an explanation from a medical-legal standpoint as to what EBM is and its possible limitations in requiring it in work related injury claims in some jurisdictions. The use of the term "evidence-based" has medical as well as legal ramifications. The point of view expressed here merges medical treatment, medical research, and legal considerations for mandating EBM in clinical practice for the treatment of injured workers. California law will be used to demonstrate the mandate for use of EBM in its workers' compensation system. Read more.

Initial Data Show Decline in Public Self Insured Workers' Comp Claim Costs for FY 2012/2013. Preliminary results show total paid and incurred losses on California workers' compensation public self-insured claims declined for the fiscal year that ended June 30, as the number of claims and the average medical and indemnity loss per claim all fell according to a California Workers' Compensation Institute analysis of initial data on FY 2012/13 claims released by the Office of Self Insurance Plans (OSIP) last week. Read more.

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