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What Will the Medical Director Do?
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Your medical director, medical department or consultant is a key resource to help interpret medical jargon accompanying work-related injuries or illnesses. Here are some roles and responsibilities:
- Medical personnel can help determine the extent of work-related injuries and design transitional duty jobs to get injured employees back to work.
- Identify the appropriate contact person to discuss worker injuries and workers compensation at your facility. Usually the appropriate person will be the workers compensation manager (injury coordinator) or middle manager.
- Visit company facilities serviced at least once per year.
- Telephone the treating medical providers BEFORE they prescribe time out of work for an injured employee, to discuss the possibility of transitional duty assignments.
- Review injured employee's file to ensure the necessary documentation is completed. If not, talk to the injury coordinator, who should obtain the documentation.
- Work closely with your injury coordinator to resolve work-related incidents requiring medical attention or lost time.
- Observe and note the physical requirements of jobs and transitional duty jobs to provide informed recommendations for transitional duty. This also increases employees' comfort level with the company's medical director.
- Coordinate with injury coordinator and employees' treating physician to develop transitional duty job descriptions accommodating physical limitations of injured employees.
- Define and document the boundaries of your role as in-house medical director to ensure delineation between medical director activities and adjuster activities.
- Determine what medical privacy regulations are relevant to avoid potential violations.
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Why is the selection of the medical provider important to the plaintiff's bar association? The answer is simple: money. Choosing the wrong provider is a very fast way to incur higher than necessary medical expenses and higher than necessary indemnity cost.
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Know what to expect! When an employer approaches the modified duty program on a claim by claim basis, it creates inequities that are noticed by the other employees. To be effective, the modified duty program needs to be designed prior to the injury occurring and then be utilized in the same manner for all injured employees.
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With YouTube and other video sites online, the use of video to show and describe things is quite common. Video job descriptions are now easy to create, simple to watch, and they help familiarize the medical provider with processes. Even videos and photos on Facebook are now commonly used to dispute claims on inability to work. Learn more.
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