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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
OWCP Federal Workers Comp allows injured federal workers a chance to receive a sort of “final settlement” after they have reached maximum medical improvement of their DOL workers comp injury. This “final settlement” is called a Schedule Award and it requires a final impairment rating by a doctor who is trained in Schedule Award Impairment Ratings. The doctor must be able to use the AMA Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment to perform a Schedule Award Impairment Rating.
Unfortunately, very few doctors know how to perform Schedule Award Impairment Ratings because they are too complicated and require such specialized training and knowledge. For this reason, it is advisable that federal injured workers being treated in OWCP workers comp programs ask their doctor if they are trained and knowledgeable about Schedule Award Impairment Ratings. If the doctor can’t answer “yes” to this, injured workers should find a doctor who is trained and knowledgeable. With that said, WOLMED doctors are trained and knowledgeable about Schedule Award Impairment Ratings as we have performed countless numbers of them over the years.
Have you reached Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) in your OWCP federal workers comp claim? Is your OWCP doctor trained and knowledgeable about Schedule Award Impairment Ratings? If you want to be certain that your Schedule Award will give you the correct “final settlement” that is due to you by law, then call the OWCP DOL doctors at WOLMED, who are experts in Schedule Award Impairment Ratings. We want to be your OWCP doctor.
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Federal Employees suffer tens of thousands of on the job injuries every year. These injuries are covered by the OWCP workers comp program. Regardless of the agency where the injured employee works, all DOL Federal Employees can choose their own OWCP federal workers compensation doctor.
In Dallas, the OWCP doctors at WOLMED are experts in the treatment of injured DOL patients. In fact, for the calendar year 2012, WOLMED helped over 180 injured OWCP workers comp patients from federal agencies around the DFW metroplex and north into Denton. Through intense training, the DOL doctors in WOLMED Denton and WOLMED Dallas have become the premier doctors for the treatment of injured federal employees. We were pleased to help injured federal DOL employees from the following agencies in 2012: USPS, TSA, VA, SSA, Federal Prisons – just to name a few.
The satisfaction ratings by these OWCP injured workers has been off the charts, and we at WOLMED look forward to our continued excellent relationship with federal injured employees in the coming months and years.
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Have you ever been injured on the job and didn’t know what to do next? If you answered yes to this question then you are not alone. Many people don’t know what to do next because they don’t understand how workers compensation works, and to understand how it works you first have to know what workers compensation is, so let’s start off by defining it. (more…)
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
On a daily bases, the doctors at Wolmed Pain Management Facility, encounter injured workers who suffer from injuries at work, so bad, they often cause serious, chronic pain. In an article written in the daily beast, a while back, called The 20 Most Dangerous Jobs, Clark Merrefield and Lauren Streib walk us through the top jobs leading to injury and fatality in the US. Clark and Lauren compiled the following list by analyzing fatality rates, injury, and illness rates as tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2008. (more…)
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Can you relate to any of the following scenarios? A construction worker carrying some lumber falls down holding his back. A UPS worker delivering packages slips and falls on an icy sidewalk. A painter climbing up a ladder falls and hurts himself. A sales person stocking the shelves at his job drops a box of merchandise on another employee below. A mailman delivering the mail twists his ankle while on the job. What do these situations illustrate? That anyone on any job can experience a worker related injury at any time. (more…)
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
The annual report on the total number of Texas work injuries was recently published and it showed another drop in the overall number of reported work injury claims for 2010. This is the 4th consecutive year showing a reduction in Texas work injury claims. Some would have us believe that this number is a good thing, and from the standpoint of fewer people getting injured I would certainly agree. However, these numbers don’t necessarily tell the whole story. Take the following points for example.
Point #1 – Unemployment. When fewer people have jobs fewer people get hurt on the job.
Point #2 – Fear of Unemployment. When so many people are already out of work, many others fear being out of work. Lots of companies fire people after they are hurt on the job. It’s not fair, but it’s a reality for many injured workers.
Point #3 – Reduction of Doctors who Treat Injured Workers. Workers Compensation health care networks have drastically limited the number of qualified doctors who are allowed to treat many injured workers. If employees have reduced access to qualified workers comp doctors, who will they report their injury to? Not reporting an injury doesn’t mean that an injury never happened, but statistically, this will add to the supposed reduction in work injury claims.
Point #4 – Work Injuries that are Treated as Regular Health Insurance Claims. Many people who are hurt at work will not only not report their injury, but they will see a doctor and say that they don’t know how the pain started. They may get some treatment from their doctor, but it will be under their regular health insurance and not under Texas Workers Compensation. Many health insurers are very good at allowing treatment for these kinds of injuries. Blue Cross Blue Shield is one very good example of an insurance company that takes care of its customers. The problem is that Texas Workers Comp provides injured workers with many rights that the injured worker must forgo by not filing a work injury claim, and by taking this route annual injury statistics appear lower than they really are.
Now clearly some of the reason for the reduced number of Texas work injury claims is due to things like better employer education on workplace safety, OSHA regulations, and other workplace safety initiatives. Those points should not be overlooked. The point I want to drive home is that these numbers are most certainly skewed and the reasons are very sad. Unemployment, fear of unemployment, reduction of qualified Texas Workers Compensation doctors, filing on health insurance instead of workers comp insurance and anything else that might have an affect on the statistics.
WOLMED Texas workers compensation doctors want to help you when you’re hurt on the job. We can’t stop unemployment, but we can help you with the fear of unemployment by helping you get the treatment you need and by taking steps to help protect your job. And sure we accept Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance and most other insurances, but we don’t want you to waive your rights under Texas Workers Compensation. Instead, we want to help protect your rights. Finally, while there is a reduction of qualified doctors who treat workers compensation, we still treat injured workers and we have no plans whatsoever to stop helping injured workers. We want to be your doctor!
If you or someone you know what hurt at work, but aren’t exactly sure what to do about it, give us a call. The Medical Doctors and Chiropractors at WOLMED can help you. We are workers comp experts. We’re open 7am to 8pm on week days and 7am to 4pm on Saturdays and we welcome same-day appointments. Call us today in Denton and Dallas, TX.
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
WOLMED recently added new Chiropractors in our Denton and Dallas, TX offices. The Denton Chiropractor is named Dr. Andrew Garrett, DC and the Dallas Chiropractor is named Dr. R.D. Holder, DC. Both of these Chiropractic Doctors have owned successful work and auto injury clinics in the past and they bring a wealth of knowledge in those areas to WOLMED.
Chiropractors are extremely valuable in Texas Workers Comp and in Auto Injuries. They are experts in musculoskeletal and joint injuries. Chiropractors can perform adjustments to joints that are out of place and in pain. These joint manipulations can often be the difference between the ability to work or needing to stay home and lose money after an injury.
Chiropractors are also an excellent compliment to Medical Doctors in Texas Workers Comp and in Auto Accidents. Together, they bring injured patients the most well-rounded and highly skilled combination of treatment options available for work injuries and auto injuries. Our Denton, TX Chiropractor and Dallas, TX Chiropractor coordinate accident recovery with the Medical Doctors that is individualized to meet each injured patient’s needs. Treatment may include any of the following: chiropractic adjustments, physical therapy treatments, medication management, pain relief injections, massage therapy, aquatic therapy, and more based on the patients individualized needs.
Few medical offices that specialize in workers compensation and auto injuries offer such a wide range of effective treatments that are offered by both medical doctors and chiropractors. WOLMED does this because chiropractic care is very valuable as it opens up new dimensions of pain relief and injury recovery to the treatments offered by the MD’s. Injured patients at WOLMED receive the best medical care available.
If you have been injured in a car wreck or if you have experienced a Texas Workers Compensation injury, we encourage you to contact the Denton, TX and Dallas, TX Chiropractors and Medical Doctors at WOLMED Medical. We want to be your doctor too.
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
The Lake Lewisville bridge seems to have an invisible barrier that keeps injured workers from crossing over into Denton to get treated for a work injury. Do Lewisville injured workers realize that for just a short drive to Denton, they can be treated for a work injury by Medical Doctors who are workers comp experts. From Round Grove Road, to Loop 288, in Denton, the trip only takes about 10 to 15 minutes. That’s an easy drive to get expert medical care for a complicated work injury. Lewisville, TX is home to people who work for the post office, education, transportation, manufacturing, retail, and much more. People in these industries are among the most injured in Denton County. It’s important that injured workers in Lewisville, TX know where to go to get expert treatment for their workers comp injury. Consider WOL+MED in Denton, TX. If you or someone you know lives in Lewisville, TX, let WOL+MED help you with your workers comp injury. For more information about how WOL+MED can help Lewisville, TX injured workers, call (940) 484-7000 or visit us on line at www.wolmed.com. We want to be your doctor!
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
In order to remain CARF accredited, WOL+MED is required to provide access or referral to legal entities for appropriate representation and to have information available to our patients regarding advocacy. In other words, we are required to help patients find attorneys who can help them with the legal aspects of their work injuries. Workers Comp attorneys can be very helpful for injured workers. Very often, people who were hurt on the job have trouble getting their injuries approved by the insurance carrier and sometimes they have difficulty getting their entire injury claim accepted. Attorneys can file for Benefit Review Conferences (BRC) and Contested Case Hearings (CCH) that often clear up the problems that injured workers have for getting treatment.
BRC’s and CCH’s can be overwhelming and intimidating for injured workers because they have to attend the hearings and represent themselves against lawyers and other workers comp experts who are trying to keep their case closed. If the case is closed, then injured workers can’t get the treatment they need to get better. When they can’t get better, they often lose their jobs, suffer from depression and financial loss, and more. Workers Comp attorneys can usually prevent these bad things from happening.
CARF recognizes the need for patients to have legal advocacy and so does WOL+MED. We can recommend very good, qualified workers compensation lawyers who will help get your case open or keep it open and help get your work injuries accepted by the insurance carrier.
Some people worry that they will have to pay the attorney and that usually is not true. Most of the time, the workers comp attorney is paid a percentage by insurance carriers, but ONLY when you get paid and ONLY when your case is going well. These lawyers have to do the right job for you before they ever get paid. The other thing that is very important to remember is that if you have to be off work due to a work injury that is not accepted by the insurance carrier, you most likely will not get paid. When your attorney gets your claim approved, that also keeps your checks coming. Many patients think that’s worth it since they wouldn’t get paid without their attorney.
When you’re hurt at work, the last thing you should have to worry about is if you will have insurance problems or if you will have to pay money out of your own pocket to get treatment. It’s not fair to you when that happens. WOL+MED helps you with these problems by recommending very good, qualified workers comp attorneys to be in your corner.
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
WOL+MED has earned its 3rd straight maximum CARF accreditation for Pain Management, Work Hardening, and Work Conditioning. CARF stands for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehab Facilities. This is the international “Gold Standard” in rehabilitation. By the end of the current accreditation period, WOL+MED will have been accredited for a full decade. To become CARF accredited, a medical / physical therapy facility has to meet or exceed hundreds of standards for excellence. Among these standards are those requiring accessibility into the rehab programs, tracking of excellent outcomes, patient satisfaction, maintaining an excellent medical team, effective business operations, maintaining a safe treatment environment, and much more. CARF accreditation is an ongoing effort which means that WOL+MED is committed to always providing the highest level of service to its patients and their families. We don’t have to be CARF accredited. After all, it’s really hard. We do it because we know that it makes us better and because we know that it’s important to our patients.
At last check, WOL+MED has the only CARF accredited Pain Management program between Dallas and St. Louis, Missouri (traveling along I-35). We’re proud of our program and of our patients’ results. The majority of people who complete our programs get better and are able to get their life back. With our continued CARF accreditation, we’re committed to that high level of excellence.
If you know someone who suffers with chronic pain or they haven’t gotten the results they expect from other places, please tell them about WOL+MED’s CARF accredited pain management program. Go to our web site and read the testimonials from other patients who experienced success with WOL+MED. We can help.
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