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Alliance Alleges ‘Crosswalk’ Does Not Translate for Worker’s Compensation Benefits

Posted on Nov 18, 2011

The New York Worker's Compensation Alliance has advised the recent ‘crosswalk' which was included in the New York guidelines for making medical impairment and lost wage earning capacities for injured workers may be putting a heavy emphasis on a worker's ability to function after suffering an injury.

The Alliance has stated the medical impairment section of the newly released guidelines was based on recommendations from a task force of policymakers and medical doctors from September 2010. The criteria for assessing medical impairments uses a scale of A-Z of individual body parts with the letter Z reflective of the most serious impairments.

The State Worker's Compensation Board added the crosswalk which permits doctors to also provide an overall severity rating ranging between 0-6. The Alliance has issued a warning that the Board has not assigned weights to individual functional and vocational factors that include education, occupation, or age.

The Alliance has also stated on its website that the 2012 guidelines state that medical impairment does not ‘translate into loss of wage earning capacity'. Worker's compensation benefits depend on the loss of wage-earning capacity and not the medical impairment. The impairment rating will not translate into degrees of disability.