Posts Tagged ‘WORKERS COMP’
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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Monday, April 8th, 2013
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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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Certain procedures require constant care and follow-up, but not every Doctor’s office is equipped to handle the situation from start to finish. Other Doctor’s offices may be equipped to handle the procedure, but they don’t accept many insurance companies. This can leave you paying a lot out of pocket.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
When you’re injured at work, it not only affects you at work, but also at home as well. It’s extremely frustrating when you are limited from doing simple things such as holding a cell phone.
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
It is estimated that more than 80 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. The pain does not go away, but there are Doctors that can provide treatment and things that can be done at home to manage the pain.
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
BLOOD SAVES LIVES
WOL+MED recently hosted a blood drive this month that benefits the American Red Cross. Because the blood supply after the holidays is always low, the donations that were received were greatly appreciated. 13 people ended up donating a total of 13 pints of blood, which could potentially save 39 lives! To show our thanks to those who gave blood, WOL+MED donated 4 $25 gift cards. The winners of the gift cards are: (more…)
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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, July 21st, 2011
Something incredible happened on July 13th in Carrollton, TX. A 19 year old construction worker fell down a 55 foot hole at Good Elementary School and lived to tell the tail. The hole was just over 30 inches across, barely wide enough for the man’s shoulders to fit in. Firefighters from both Coppell and Carrollton rushed to the scene and quickly devised a strategy to bring the man back up the hole. (more…)
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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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