What the panel ordered
The WCAB affirmed the WCJ's determination awarding the testosterone cream treatment as reasonably required to relieve the applicant from the effects of his industrial injury.
Defendant sought reconsideration of the Findings, Award and Order issued August 26, 2004, which awarded applicant further medical treatment in the form of testosterone cream treatment recommended by his treating physician.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The WCAB held that medical treatment reasonably required to relieve the effects of an industrial injury is compensable, even if it does not cure the injury, and that the applicant rebutted the presumption against the treatment under the ACOEM guidelines.
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The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.