What Is Maximum Medical Improvement?
If you’ve been injured at work and are receiving medical treatment through authorized providers, you may have heard the term “maximum medical improvement” or MMI. What is it? In Colorado, medical treatment provided to injured workers is generally governed by a set of Medical Treatment Guidelines or MTG. Relying on the MTG, a doctor assigned to your case will ultimately determine that additional medical care will not further improve your condition. That’s MMI.
MMI is specifically defined by statute as “… a point in time when any medically determinable physical or mental impairment as a result of injury has become stable and when no further treatment is reasonable expected to improve the condition.”
