California's Workers' Comp System Driving Doctors Away
Charleston Gazette › February 09, 2005
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SACRAMENTO - Francis Pecoraro is trading a San Francisco Bay area medical practice that mainly serves injured workers for one in Wilmington, N.C., that he believes will be more doctor friendly.
Pecoraro, who specializes in chronic pain cases, is among a number of California doctors who say they are fighting time- consuming, uphill battles to get necessary care for workers' compensation patients. As a result, some are limiting their workers' comp practices or dropping them altogether.See the full content of this document
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California's Workers' Comp System Driving Doctors Away
Pecoraro said he decided to move to a state with a "less cumbersome" workers' comp system rather than spend "more time in the office generating reports and begging for medical care for my patients and less time with my family."
Such complaints are coming "a lot more often these days" from doctors since the s...See the full content of this document
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