Lucy Blasi — ADJ3348532

Lien claimant Dr. David Silver, a treating physician, sought additional reimbursement, penalties, interest, and costs/sanctions for services rendered to applicant Lucy Blasi for an admitted cumulative trauma injury. The WCJ found that Dr. Silver had been adequately compensated (and in fact overpaid) under the official medical fee schedule based on the credible and unrebutted testimony of defendant's bill review expert Yollete Capalla, and denied the lien and the Petition for Costs and Sanctions. On reconsideration, Dr. Silver challenged the admissibility of defendant's payment-history exhibit, the qualification of the bill reviewer as an expert, the assumption he was a secondary treating physician, and the denial of sanctions. The WCAB adopted and incorporated the WCJ's Report and Opinion, gave great weight to the WCJ's credibility determination under Garza, and denied reconsideration.