Medical Benefits

If you are injured at work, you should first get medical treatment. Next, you should contact a lawyer. If you make a misstatement to your employer or their insurance adjustor your claim may be denied. The Injured Workers’ Law Firm represents workers who are seeking medical benefits. We can assist you in pursuing the benefits to which you are entitled.

Choosing the Right Doctor

When seeking workers’ compensation, an employee has a duty to choose from a panel of three doctors. Many times, employers select the most conservative doctors for the panel, hoping to avoid having to cover your claim.

Once you choose a doctor from the panel, you are stuck with that doctor. You cannot just go to your personal doctor. What the doctor from the panel diagnoses you with will greatly affect the success of your workers’ compensation claim.

If a panel is not offered, you can go to a doctor of your own choosing. However, after being treated by that doctor, that doctor is considered your workers’ compensation doctor and the insurance company only has to pay that doctor’s medical bills.

What Medical Benefits Can I Get?

If your claim is accepted, you have the right to receive reimbursement for your medical expenses, and lost income. You are also eligible to get mileage reimbursement for miles you drive that are related to your medical treatment. Your employer needs to provide transportation if their employees cannot drive themselves.

To get mileage reimbursement, it is important to keep accurate records. Get a copy of the bill to prove you went to the clinic for treatment. Determine the distance and document that for future reference.

When receiving workers’ compensation benefits, you may be eligible for money and medical treatment for injuries that result from over compensating for the original injury. If you injure a body part, you naturally start using another body part to compensate. An injury on one hand will cause you to start using another hand disproportionately. This overcompensation may result in an injury. You deserve benefits for this related injury. We can fight to get you money and medical treatment for your injuries.

You can get lifetime medical benefits that are reasonable and necessary for a comfortable life and that the services are provided by your workers’ compensation treating physician. Trips to the chiropractors and acupuncture treatments are included if approved by your workers’ compensation doctor. We advise our clients to go to the doctor once a year to ensure that your treatment is always connected to the work accident. If you wait 10 years, the insurance company may say that it is no longer sufficiently related to the accident to be compensable.

You are eligible to receive damages for compensational consequences. Compensational consequences are injuries or situations that occurred because of the original injury. If you need to go see a counselor because you are depressed, you may be able to receive compensation. The causal connection between the original injury and your current medical state must be sufficiently strong in order for the related injury to be compensable.

Call or e-mail today to set up an appointment. You have thirty days to make a workers’ compensation claim with your employer.