QME Exam (Latest 2025/2026 Update) Questions with Verified Answers | 100% Correct| Graded A.

QME Exam (Latest 2025/2026
Update) Questions with Verified
Answers | 100% Correct| Graded A.

Question:
Reasonable medical probability?
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Answer:
Standard by which QME uses combination of existing medical and
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scientific knowledge and the occupational and medical history of the
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individual worker to conclude whether the work exposure contributed to
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the injury
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Question:
Evidentiary standard of causation/contribution in compensability disputes?
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Answer:

Preponderance of the evidence (51%; more likely than not)
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Question:
3 factors to establish in making a causation determination?
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(1) Presence of pathological conditions and disability
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(2) Relevant work exposures
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(3) Non-industrial exposures (other causes of disease)
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Question:
5 major types of causation?
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(1) Direct
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(2) Contributing
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(3) Acceleration
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(4) Precipitation
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(5) Aggravation
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Question:
Direct causation?
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Work exposures are directly responsible for the health outcomes
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Question:

,Contributing causation? i,-




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Several factors led to the disease; work exposure is one of these factors
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Question:

Acceleration?
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Disease process is accelerated by virtue of work exposure. The date of the
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onset of the disease is much sooner than it would have been in the
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absence of the exposure.
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Question:

Precipitation?

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Work exposure *precipitates* the manifestation of the illness. For example,
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an underlying tendency or asymptomatic problem was present, but the
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work exposure causes it to clinically manifest.
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Question:
Aggravation?
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, A medical condition may be present already, but work exposure makes it
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Question:
Principle of "taking employees as you find them"?
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Answer:

The employer cannot avoid liability for an occupational injury by claiming
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that the injury would not have happened if the worker had been in a
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or emotional condition before the accident.
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Question:

Holds authority to appoint physicians as QME evaluators?
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Answer:
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Question:

Term of appointment as QME evaluator?
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Answer:

2 years (LC 139.2)
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