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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration to address lien claimant Southern California Mental Health Associates' disallowed lien for psychiatric treatment. Despite applicant's compromise and release dismissing psychiatric injury, the Board found sufficient medical evidence to establish that the applicant sustained a psychiatric injury arising out of and occurring in the course of employment. The Board rescinded the WCJ's decision, deferred the psychiatric lien, and returned the matter for trial level determination on the reasonableness and necessity of Southern's charges.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration to address lien claimant Southern California Mental Health Associates' disallowed lien for psychiatric treatment. Despite applicant's compromise and release dismissing psychiatric injury, the Board found sufficient medical evidence to establish that the applicant sustained a psychiatric injury arising out of and occurring in the course of employment. The Board rescinded the WCJ's decision, deferred the psychiatric lien, and returned the matter for trial level determination on the reasonableness and necessity of Southern's charges.
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