Lafayette Bone & Joint Clinic v. Louisiana United Business SIF

SAVOIE, Judge.

11 This is one of two workers’ compensation matters now before us involving an identical dispute between a health care provider and an employer/workers’ compensation insurer over reimbursement for physician-dispensed medication provided in connection with the employee’s authorized office visits with his treating physician. The two matters were tried together, but never consolidated, and they were appealed separately.1

After trial, the workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) limited the health care provider’s reimbursement for the medication to $750.00 under La.R.S. 23:1142, finding…