What can you do if your treating doctor wants to refer you to a specialist, or tries to order an MRI or CT scan, but the workers’ compensation insurance company refuses to authorize this needed treatment?
 
Under Georgia workers’ compensation law, if you are receiving care from a “authorized treating physician” and that authorized physician refers you to a specialist, the referred doctor is supposed to be authorized automatically.
Similarly, if an authorized treating physician writes an order for an MRI, CT or other diagnostic test, that test should also be authorized.
What we are finding, however, is that when the referred doctor or the medical testing center calls the insurance company to verify that they will be paid, the insurance adjustor may say “no.” And of course, if a medical provider or testing center does not have a source of payment, they will not provide treatment to you. [Read more…] about How to Combat Insurance Company Delay Tactics and Refusal to Authorize Medical Treatment