Court rules ketamine treatments properly compensated

The Delaware Supreme Court Thursday found that the state properly paid for an injured employee’s ketamine infusion treatments despite the worker’s claim that the payments were insufficient under the state’s workers compensation medical fee schedule.

Melissa Taylor was injured while working for the state in 2016 and subsequently received 23 state-compensated ketamine infusions for pain management. Ketamine’s use for pain management is being closely watched by the workers comp industry.

The court, in affirming a decision by the Industrial Accident Board and the Superior Court, said Ms. Taylor failed to show that the billing codes used by the ketamine treatment provider were insufficient or inaccurate.