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This case involves a workers' compensation claim by an inmate laborer for orthopedic and psychiatric injuries. The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reimbursement to Hepps Pharmacy for medications, as no prescription was provided. The Board also reversed an award to Southern California Mental Health Associates for psychiatric treatment, ruling that inmate psychiatric injuries are not compensable under Labor Code section 3208.3(j). The Board found that the psychiatric injury was a consequence of the industrial orthopedic injury, and thus not a compensable independent non-industrial condition requiring treatment to relieve orthopedic effects.
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This case involves a workers' compensation claim by an inmate laborer for orthopedic and psychiatric injuries. The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reimbursement to Hepps Pharmacy for medications, as no prescription was provided. The Board also reversed an award to Southern California Mental Health Associates for psychiatric treatment, ruling that inmate psychiatric injuries are not compensable under Labor Code section 3208.3(j). The Board found that the psychiatric injury was a consequence of the industrial orthopedic injury, and thus not a compensable independent non-industrial condition requiring treatment to relieve orthopedic effects.
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