The treating physician recommends surgery. Claimant undergoes a second medical examination, where a panel of doctors concludes that claimant's workplace injury is medically stationary, that his work related injury is resolved, and that his pre-existing degenerative condition has become the major contributing cause of his need for treatment. The first denial of March 17 is set aside by the hearings division because employer had not accepted a combined condition before issuing the first denial. The closure of March 18 is also set aside by the hearings division. Employer issues a second denial of the combined condition on the ground that the workplace injury is no longer the major contributing cause of the combined condition.
Employer expressly accepts the combined condition.
The second denial is set aside by the hearings division for substantive error. The Board reverses the ALJ and reinstates the March 17 denial. The Board reverses the ALJ and reinstates the May 22 denial. Claimant assigns as error the Board's reinstatements of the March 17 and May 22 denials of his combined condition. Rather, it did not believe that it was required to do so.