AMA Guides definition

AMA Guides means American Medical Association, Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment [Fifth Edition].

AMA Guides means the American medical association’s guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment in effect at the time of the performance of any examination or test on the exposed person required under this chapter.

AMA Guides means the most recent edition of the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (American Medical Association). In the event of a release of a new edition of the publication in a given year, the new edition shall be deemed to be the most recent edition on January 1 of the year following its release. The edition that is in effect on the date the employee is injured is the edition that shall be applicable to the claim.

Examples of AMA Guides in a sentence

• PHYSICIAN shall perform the evaluation in full accordance with the standards defined by the Division of Workers’ Compensation of the State of California and the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fifth Edition.

• Any physician who is acting as an injured employee’s Primary Treating Physician shall have knowledge of and use the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment 5th Edition, or any Guide currently approved and promulgated by the DWC; in accordance with Title 8, California Code of Regulations, section 9785(g).

• The "nature of the physical injury or disfigurement" shall incorporate the descriptions and measurements of physical impairments and the corresponding percentages of impairments published in the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (5th Edition)3.

• RateFast is a data collection and data formatting web based application that assists health care professionals in organizing workers’ compensation information and providing independent impairment ratings consistent with the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment.

More Definitions of AMA Guides

AMA Guides means the edition of the Assessment

AMA Guides means the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (Fourth Edition) (other than Chapter 15) as modified by or under this Part;

AMA Guides means American Medical Association, Guides to the Evaluation of Perma- nent Impairment [Fifth Edition].

AMA Guides means the 6th edition of the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, American Medical Association, until a new edition is designated by the general assembly in accordance with § 50- 6-204(k)(2)(A). The edition that is in effect on the date the employee is injured is the edition that shall be applicable to the claim;

AMA Guides means the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition, or such edition thereof as the Fund may from time to time give notice of in the Gazette;

AMA Guides means the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (Fourth Edition) (other than

AMA Guides means the American Medical Association