With the questionable value of IMEs to the dispute process and with IBC’s intense focus on reducing claim costs, why do insurers continue to spend such significant amounts on IMEs?
Mr. Cunningham may have indirectly answered this question when he explained in his Final Report, that “…their reports and testimony are often used by insurers in the DRS to support benefit denials… [and] the IE assessor is selected because he or she might support the insurer’s position.”