Oklahoma: Amendments keep focus on eye impairments

The Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court adopted amendments to its rule regarding eye impairments.

The rule provides the criteria for measuring and calculating the percentage of eye impairment. The new rule provides that measurements are based on uncorrected vision. Implantation of an intraocular lens is not a "correction" to the worker's vision under the rule. When an artificial lens is surgically implanted to replace the removed lens, it is a permanent restorative device and determination of impairment to vision is based on anatomical or functional loss of sight remaining after the lens is implanted.

Read more at the WorkersComp Forum homepage.

Washington: Department smoothes out conflicting provider network rules (10/08/12)
Texas: Amendments align health care rules (09/01/11)
Delaware: Regs focus on payment in surgery preauthorization requests (07/19/12)
Massachusetts: Department spells out chronic pain treatment (08/01/11)
Oregon: Hearing services are subject of temporary rules (05/31/12)

July 2, 2012

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