HCR ManorCare v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge PELLEGRINI.

HCR ManorCare (Employer) appeals an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming the Workers’ Compensation Judge’s (WCJ) decision to reassign Employer’s request for a Utilization Review Determination of Barbara Bollman’s (Claimant) medical treatment by Mark LoDico, M.D. (Dr. LoDico) to a Utilization Review Organization (URO). We affirm because it was within the WCJ’s jurisdiction to order the reassignment of this case to the URO.

Claimant sustained a work-related back injury on November 13, 2001, while working for Employer for which she received…