{"id":244,"date":"2011-01-29T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2020-02-09T21:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T21:58:48","slug":"cost-increase-for-ppd-evaluations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2011\/01\/articles\/benefits\/permanent-partial-disability-awards\/cost-increase-for-ppd-evaluations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost Increase for PPD Evaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective February 1, 2011, the cost of a permanent partial disability evaluation and report will be $673.12.&nbsp; The cost is set by the Division of Industrial Relations.&nbsp; If more than two body parts are evaluated by the rater, an additional $224.80 is added.&nbsp;&nbsp; This cost is the same regardless of whether it is the insurer or the injured worker who is paying for the rating evaluation.&nbsp;That means that injured workers should have a good understanding of how the AMA Guides to Evaluation to Permanent Impairment are applied before jumping to the conclusion that the percentage of impairment offered by the insurer is incorrect.&nbsp; &nbsp;$673&nbsp; is a lot of money to spend on a mere&nbsp;hope that a second rating physician will find a&nbsp;higher percentage, <strong>and<\/strong>&nbsp; that hearing officer or appeals officer is likely to agree with the second rating physician.&nbsp; The cost to have a rating doctor review records and give a report, without examining the injured worker, is now $335.89.&nbsp;&nbsp; Learn <a href=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/second-ppd.php\">how to obtain a second rating evaluation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective February 1, 2011, the cost of a permanent partial disability evaluation and report will be $673.12.&nbsp; The cost is set by the Division of Industrial Relations.&nbsp; If more than two body parts are evaluated by the rater, an additional $224.80 is added.&nbsp;&nbsp; This cost is the same regardless of whether it is the insurer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2011\/01\/articles\/benefits\/permanent-partial-disability-awards\/cost-increase-for-ppd-evaluations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cost Increase for PPD Evaluations<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-permanent-partial-disability-awards","tag-permanent-partial-disability-awards"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}