Pearson v. C.P. Buckner Steel Erection Co.

LEWIS, Judge.

This appeal presents a question of first impression in this state: Where an employer denies liability but is later ordered to pay reasonable and necessary medical expenses under the Workers’ Compensation Act and where Medicaid has already paid a portion of those expenses, does the employer merely have to reimburse Medicaid or must it also pay those expenses authorized by the Act but not covered by Medicaid?

By opinion and award entered 7 February 1995, the Industrial Commission (“Commission”) concluded that plaintiff sustained an injury by accident arising out of and in the course…