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HRD-82-102 1 (1982-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabdqu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE U.S. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Report To The Chairman, Committee On Labor And Human Resources United ! 6,Pei RELEASD Ilegations Related To The Processing Of Injured Employees' Hearing Loss Claims GAO reviewed charges of improprieties which related primarily to a Department of Labor's Hearing Loss Task Fo ce's processing of claims for workers' compensation be efits. Based on a sample of claims adjudicated by the taik force, GAO concluded that most of the improprieties had occurred, but these occurrences were relatively infrequent. Labor disbanded the task force in October 1981. G O also reviewed Labor's current system for processing hearing loss claims and believes improprieties similar to th se identified with the task force's review of claims should, for the most part, no longer occur. However, many ch ims are not being adjudicated within the time frame established by Labor for processing such claims. In addition, GAO noted that Labor had not (1) established schedules of reasonable fees for hearing tests and (2) ac udicated about 500 task force claims, as of April 1982. In May 1982, Labor revised its criteria for the time it sh ould take to process a hearing loss claim and issued in tructions to complete processing of the outstanding ta 5k force claims. Labor expects to implement schedules of reasonable medical fees in October 1982. I I119570 Z: GAO/HRD-82-102 AUGUST 31, 1982 513IL