1996 Florida Uniform Permanent Impairment
Rating Schedule
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BACKGROUND
- PHILOSOPHY AND CONCEPTS
- EVALUATION PROCESS
- THE BASIC RULES
- EVALUATION OF THE SPINE
- FRACTURES
- INTERVERTEBRAL DISC OR OTHER SOFT TISSUE LESIONS
- SPONDYLOLYSIS AND SPONDYLOLISTHESIS, UNOPERATED
- SPINAL STENOSIS AND SEGMENTAL INSTABILITY
- SPINAL STENOSIS, SEGMENTAL INSTABILITY, OR SPONDYLOLISTHESIS, OPERATED
- ANKYLOSIS
- PELVIS
- SPECIFIC DISORDERS
- PREFERRED OR NONPREFERRED EXTREMITY
- ADDITIONAL RATABLE DISORDERS OF THE EXTREMITIES
- THUMB
- FINGERS
- WRIST JOINT
- ELBOW JOINT
- SHOULDER JOINT
- DISORDERS OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY
- BONE AND JOINT DEFORMITIES
- UPPER EXTREMITY—CONVERSION TABLES
- AMPUTATION—FINGER, THUMB, HAND, UPPER EXTREMITY
- GREAT TOE
- 2ND THROUGH 5TH TOES
- METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT OF 4TH AND 5TH TOES
- ANKLE (HIND FOOT)
- OTHER DISORDERS OF THE ANKLE AND FOOT
- KNEE JOINT
- HIP JOINT
- LOWER EXTREMITY CONVERSION TABLES
- AMPUTATION—TOE, FOOT, LOWER EXTREMITY
- INTRODUCTION
- CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD)
- SKULL DEFECTS
- SKULL FRACTURES
- HEADACHES
- CRANIAL NERVES
- SPINAL NERVE IMPAIRMENT AFFECTING HEAD AND NECK
- THORACIC NERVES
- SPINAL NERVES AFFECTING INGUINAL REGION AND PERINEUM
- UNILATERAL SPINAL NERVE ROOT AFFECTING THE UPPER EXTREMITY
- UNILATERAL BRACHIAL PLEXUS DISORDERS
- SPECIFIC UNILATERAL SPINAL NERVE AFFECTING THE UPPER EXTREMITY
- UPPER EXTREMITY DUE TO ENTRAPMENT NEUROPATHY
- UNILATERAL SPINAL NERVE ROOT AFFECTING THE LOWER EXTREMITY
- UNILATERAL LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS
- SPECIFIC UNILATERAL SPINAL NERVE AFFECTING THE LOWER EXTREMITY
- DETERMINATION OF PAIN OR LOSS OF SENSATION
- DETERMINATION OF STRENGTH (POWER) AND/OR MOTOR DEFICIT
- INTRODUCTION
- DIAGNOSIS AND IMPAIRMENT
- EVIDENCE OF MENTAL IMPAIRMENT
- SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
- ASSESSING IMPAIRMENT SEVERITY
- CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING PERMANENT IMPAIRMENT RELATED TO THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
- CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING IMPAIRMENT NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO LUNG FUNCTION
- SYMPTOMATIC LIMITATION
- EXERCISE TESTING
- VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
- CORONARY HEART DISEASE
- CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
- HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
- CARDIOMYOPATHIES
- PERICARDIAL HEART DISEASE
- ARRHYTHMIAS
- VASCULAR DISORDERS OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY
- VASCULAR DISORDERS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY
- ANEMIA
- WHITE BLOOD CELL DISEASES OR ABNORMALITIES
- PLATELET AND/OR BLEEDING DISORDERS
- INTRODUCTION
- LOSS OF VISION
- PRIMARY COORDINATE FACTORS
- MEASURE AND COMPUTATION OF LOSS
- IMPAIRMENT OF THE EYE
- WHOLE BODY IMPAIRMENT DUE TO VISION LOSS
- INTRODUCTION
- HEARING LOSS
- EQUILIBRIUM
- DISORDERS OF THE FACE
- RESPIRATION
- MASTICATION AND DEGLUTITION
- OLFACTION AND TASTE
- DYSARTHRIA
- TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS
- INTRODUCTION
- UPPER DIGESTIVE TRACT (ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH, DUODENUM, SMALL INTESTINE AND PANCREAS)
- COLON AND RECTUM
- ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULAS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT, BILIARY TRACT, OR PANCREAS
- ANUS
- HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM
- UPPER URINARY TRACT
- URINARY DIVERSION
- URINARY BLADDER
- URETHRA
- MALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
- FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
- INTRODUCTION
- HYPOTHALAMIC PITUITARY AXIS
- THYROID STRUCTURE OR FUNCTION
- PARATHYROID STRUCTURE OR FUNCTION
- STRUCTURAL OR FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS OF THE ADRENAL CORTEX
- STRUCTURAL OR FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS OF THE ADRENAL MEDULLA
- STRUCTURAL OR FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS OF THE ENDOCRINE PANCREAS (ISLETS OF LANGERHANS)
- HYPOGLYCEMIA
- GONADS
- MAMMARY GLANDS
- METABOLIC BONE DISEASE
1996 FLORIDA UNIFORM PERMANENT IMPAIRMENT RATING SCHEDULE
This impairment rating guide was adopted by the three-member panel, in cooperation with the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation as mandated by Section 440.15(3)(a)2, Florida Statutes, as amended.
Three-Member Panel – 1992
- Tom Gallagher, Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner
- Marty Urra, Employee Representative
- Mary Ann Stiles, Employer Representative
Three-Member Panel - 1994
- Tom Gallagher, Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner
- Marty Urra, Employee Representative
- John Fareed, Employer Representative
Advisory Committee to the Three-Member Panel
- Stanley S. Kaplan, D.C.
- Dorothy Clay Sims, J.D.
- Kevin M. McCarty, J.D.
- Lawrence S. Cohen, M.D.
- Al Frierson, J.D.
- Jim McConnaughhay, J.D.
Advisory Committee to the Division of Workers’ Compensation
- James K. Conn, M.D.
- Oregon K. Hunter, M.D.
- Pat M. J. Hutton, M.d.
- Stankey S. Kaplan, D.C.
- Paul Lincolnol, J.D.
- J. Earle Makant, D.O., M.D.
- Dorothy Clay Sims, J.D.
- Janet Osgood, R.N.
- Lee Weaver
- Lawrence S. Cohen, M.D.
The 1996 Florida Uniform Permanent Impairment Rating Schedule is a public document adopted for use by the State of Florida