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Is your Family Doctor a DOL OWCP Workers Comp Expert?

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Family Practitioner

Most people have a Doctor who is their Family Doctor.  A family doctor is exactly the doctor you want helping you and your family’s medical needs when you’re sick.  Family Doctors specialize in family illness and family wellness.  For this reason, family doctors are a crucial part of healthcare.  If you’re like a lot of people, if you’re hurt at work, who is the most likely person you will call?  Your family doctor of course.  You’re familiar with them already.  Hopefully, you already trust your family doctor.  So, without putting much though into it, the family doctor seems like the right place to go when you’re hurt at work.

This is 100% true if your family doctor is a WOLMED doctor in Denton or Dallas.  WOLMED doctors also specialize in family medicine and family practice.  We are the family doctor for thousands of patients in Denton and Dallas.  Countless of our family practice patients have been hurt at work and they made the correct call when they called their Family Doctor at WOLMED.  At WOLMED, we love our Denton medical community of family doctors and specialists.  In fact, we frequently make referrals to doctors in our community who specialize in areas that our patients need.  And just the same, when these Denton Family Doctors and specialists encounter injured workers as patients, they often turn to us for the treatment of those work injuries.

WOLMED Family Doctors have become the premier family practice location for the treatment of work and auto injuries, and especially for the treatment of OWCP DOL Workers Comp injuries.  Your family doctor is just the right person to call when you or someone in your family is sick.  WOLMED Doctors should be your first call in the treatment of a workers comp injury, auto injury, or OWCP DOL Work Injury.

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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Work Injuries Dallas

Friday, June 1st, 2012

The Transportation Security Administration – TSA – experienced 2,898 TSA workers comp injuries in 2011, out of its 64,461 federal employees.  The TSA has a very important job, especially in air travel and especially after 9/11.  Americans depend on the TSA in order to feel secure during flights for work and for play.  TSA officers, for those who don’t know, are the people who work at the metal detector and X-Ray security lines entering airport terminals.  They stand for very long periods of time, which can be very tiring for the knees and back.  They also have to lift bags and suit cases that weigh as much as 50 pounds or more.  I just took a trip by air plane and I wondered how much grief they must have to take from passengers who don’t want to remove their shoes or stand in long lines or go thru the XRay.  But I feel for TSA employees.  They’re just doing their job.  They don’t make the rules, but it is their job to make sure that everyone else follows them.

Nearly 5% of all TSA employees experienced a federal OWCP work injury in 2011.  We have the DFW International Airport as well as Love Field Airport.  That means that a lot of these TSA employees live right here in the Dallas, Denton, fort worth area. As pain doctors in Dallas and Denton we specialize in federal workers comp injuries by Transportation Security Administration employees.  We understand the hard job and the heavy lifting and long hours of standing that these folks have to deal with on a daily basis.  TSA Worker Comp injuries require specialized pain management and rehab services that can re-create the work environment and help these injured federal workers get back to work using simulated work tasks that are similar to that of the jobs performed by TSA injured workers.

So, if you work for the TSA or if you know someone who does, please tell them about WOLMED for their federal OWCP DOL workers comp injury.  We appreciate the work done by the TSA and we want to help them get better after they are hurt on the job.

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Bureau of Prisons Work Injuries

Friday, June 1st, 2012

The Federal Prison System had 2,594 OWCP Federal Work Injuries in 2011.  That was nearly 7% of their total work force.  We have a few Texas Federal Prisons where we have been able to help several OWCP injured workers with their on the job work injuries.  These guys are hard workers with very risky jobs.  They just want to get better and get back to work as soon as possible.

The Bureau of Prisons’ union is called the Council for Prison Locals (CPL).  This union will help its members find help from a  Federal Workers Comp doctor when needed.  Members can also turn to the AFGE, which stands for the American Federation of Government Employees.  With over 600,000 members, the AFGE is a powerful union that injured government workers can turn to for help after on the job injuries.

At WOLMED, we like to help injured workers who were hurt on the job at any federal agency.  This includes work injuries at the  Bureau of Prisons.  If you know someone who has been hurt at work while working for the Federal Prison System, please help them out by telling them to contact an OWCP Workers Comp Doctor in Dallas or Denton at WOLMED.

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Postal Worker Unions Fight for USPS Jobs

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) are fighting to avoid additional severe cut backs at the United States Postal Service (USPS)

The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) are fighting to avoid additional severe cut backs at the United States Postal Service (USPS). Congress is trying to cut jobs, close post office locations, and reduce mail delivery from 6 days to 5 days per week. The senate recently voted on legislation that eliminates Saturday mail delivery and cuts 100,000 jobs over the next 3 years. Now, the bill has to go thru the house, where far worse USPS cutbacks have been recommended.

The Senate bill also includes a workers compensation provision that would give people injured on the job just 50% of their pre-disability pay at retirement, compared to the 75% that is currently under law. Statistically, nearly 50% of all federal injured workers work for the USPS. So, this greatly and negatively affects postal employees. I’m worried that more injured federal employees will avoid getting treatment if they are going to lose money upon retirement.

At WOLMED, we treat a lot of injured federal employees, especially injured USPS employees. So, we hear a lot about the supposed USPS budget deficits and how the post office is losing money. The shocking part about this whole thing is the real reason for the mess. I found a letter written by Ralph Nader, dated September 21, 2011 ( http://nader.org/uploads/USPS-ltr.pdf ), that gives a very good explanation of how this whole thing came about.

In 2006, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA). This bill requires the USPS to PREFUND 75 YEARS worth of future health care benefits to retirees over the next 10 years. So, by 2016, the next 75 years worth of retirees should have prefunded health benefits. This covers current USPS employees that haven’t retired yet AND EMPLOYEES THAT HAVEN’T EVEN BEEN HIRED YET. And this prefunding doesn’t even cover current retirees. What? To make matters worse, the Office of Personnel Management estimates that this prefunding will be over-funded by more than $13 billion by 2016. Additionally, the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) has been overpaid by the USPS by about $75 billion over a 37 year period, and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) was overpaid by nearly $7 billion. Nader says that if all of these over-payments were paid back into this pre-funded retirement package, that the USPS’ obligation to that fund would be complete and all of this crisis would be ended.

With this information, it’s easy to see why the APWU is calling this a “manufactured crisis”. An unprecedented 75 years of retired postal employees (including USPS employees who haven’t even been hired yet) will have their health benefits pre-funded within the next 4 years. This is likely to be over-funded and retirement has been over-paid. If all of this were corrected, the postal service would show a profit each year. However, since congress created the problem, now it wants to correct it by cutting jobs, closing post offices, and reducing service.

Why not just change the law, correct the parts of this plan that don’t make sense, pay back all over-payments, and watch this crisis disappear?

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Denton County Workers Comp Doctors

Monday, May 21st, 2012

When searching Google for Denton County Workers Comp Doctors, WOLMED shows up 6 times on page 1 of Google.  This is really great for injured workers with Federal Workers Comp and Texas Workers Comp injuries.  However, one problem that I found is with another medical web site that shows up #1 on Google.  The Denton, TX location for a workers comp doctor ended up showing as being located at the Denton, TX Post Office.  Furthermore, the phone number for that web site was out-of-service.  Injured workers need to be very careful when searching for Denton County Workers Comp Doctors.  You don’t want to accidentally contact the wrong doctor because you went to the wrong web site.

When you are searching for a  Denton workers comp doctor or a Dallas workers comp doctor, always make sure the web address is www.wolmed.com.

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OWCP Doctor Dallas

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

After a small delay, Dr. Charles Willis, MD is finally starting his first day as WOLMED’s OWCP Doctor in Dallas.  Dr. Willis specializes in helping injured federal employees with their OWCP workers comp injuries.  DOL / OWCP Workers Comp specialists are rare due to the numerous and complicated rules that must be followed in Federal Workers Compensation.  A lot of Dallas/Ft. Worth Medical Doctors choose not to treat OWCP Workers Compensation injuries due to these complications.  WOLMED and Dr. Willis have spent many years and undergone a lot of training to be able to help OWCP Workers Comp patients and to become experts in OWCP Workers Comp.

WOLMED and Dr. Charles Willis also contract with a local OWCP Workers Comp Consultant who has over 20 years of direct experience with OWCP as a United States Postal Employee and Union Member.  Having this consultant available has been a great service for our OWCP Workers Compensation patients.  He’s been so very helpful in establishing their work injury case and making sure all of the proper forms are used and submitted on time.

If you or someone you know has been injured working for any federal agency, be it the Unites States Post Office, FEMA, TSA, IRS, VA, SSA, or any other federal agency, WOLMED and Dr. Charles Wills want to be your OWCP Doctor in Dallas, TX.

We are your OWCP Dallas Doctor.

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USPS Postal Employees Still Among Highest Injured Federal Employees in 2010

Monday, June 6th, 2011

OSHA publishes its Federal Injury and Illness Statistics for each fiscal year.  In 2010, United States Postal Employees were among the most affected, by work-related injury and illness, of all federal employees.  In past years, the USPS had 48,000+ reported cases of injury and illness.  2010 was improved, with 40,588 reported cases.  Incidentally, 40,588 is 2nd only to the Federal Government (executive, legislative, and judicial branches combined) with 67,996 cases. 

I like to report on this information each year because the statistics are very interesting.  US Postal Employees have very physically demanding jobs.  In 2010, nearly 7% of the 593,850 USPS employees reported cases of work injury or illness.  That’s about 1 in 14.  With that in mind, take a look at the following data.

The Census Bureau reported 18% of its employees as having work related injury and illness.

Customs and Border Protection had nearly 10%

The Forest Service had just over 7%.

The Bureau of Prisons had almost 7%.

Those 4 agencies are the only federal agencies with a higher incidence of work-related injury and illness than the United States Postal Service. 

The Department of Defense had 2.58%

The FBI had 3.36%

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had 5.32%

The Social Security Administration had 1.25%.

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs had 3.74%.

If you are a USPS employee, your chances of sustaining a work injury are very high.  Call WOLMED if you are hurt on the job.  We can help you today.

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DOL Doctors in Dallas, TX

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

WOLMED in Dallas, TX specializes in work injuries, especially work injuries from the Department of Labor (DOL Injuries).  Treating injured workers in federal workers compensation is different from work injuries in Texas Workers Compensation.  The rules are very different.  The required forms are different.  Impairment Ratings (Schedule Awards) work differently too.  You really have to be careful when choosing a treating doctor in federal workers compensation because lots of doctors are very good at Texas Workers Compensation, but they may not have the specialized knowledge and specialized staff needed to do the best possible job for injured DOL patients.  What if your CA forms are filled out wrong?  For starters, that’s very bad.  This could cost you a lot of money in lost wages (at least temporarily) and if the mistake is serious enough, it could cost a person their job unnecessarily.  In DOL / Federal Workers Comp, the injured workers simply can’t afford these kinds of mistakes.  So, choose a doctor who is an expert in Federal Workers Comp / DOL.  This is critically important.

At WOLMED, we treat a high number of injured workers from the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) and from the United States Postal Service (USPS).  They like that in addition to us being experts in Federal Workers Compensation, we also use Medical Doctors who can manage every aspect of an injured worker’s medical care.  And, the patients / injured workers like WOLMED too because we always make patients #1.  These federal injured workers always give us excellent feedback and high ratings.

If you or someone you know and love are hurt at work for a federal agency like the VA or the Post office, you need to give WOLMED a call.  We will get you in today and immediately begin helping you get better.  We will do our part to keep your  job safe and you will get better and be happy.

We want to be your Federal Workers Comp doctor.

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