Seven Tips to Gain Control and Manage Workers Comp Costs

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just ask injured employees if they are ready to come back to work? Unfortunately, things don’t work that way.

Eight Procedural Guidelines Guaranteed to Cover All Bases

1. Determine if directed care is allowable in your state. Whenever possible, offer the services of your workplace-designated medical provider to your employees for work-related injuries.
2. Customize and distribute a brochure to medical providers explaining your company’s transitional duty program and how it benefits your employees and your company.
3. Give each medical provider a transitional duty brochure when you make a personal visit to your company’s medical providers.
4. Have treating physicians visit your operation to document physical requirements for job performance.
5. Encourage doctors to suggest possible transitional duty tasks based on those physical requirements and potential physical limitations.
6. Monitor medical bills to determine if medical bills are reduced to the state-mandated fee schedule by your claims management staff.
7. Determine which claims adjuster services are available to coordinate medical care and reduce medical costs, using those most useful for your company. (workersxzcompxzkit)

In California, enroll in a medical provider network to control your claims costs by directing medical care for the life of the claim. This keeps your employees from seeking treatment from “doctor mills” known to keep employees out of work longer than necessary.

Author: Robert Elliott, J.D

Click on these links to try it for yourself.
WC Calculator: www.ReduceYourWorkersComp.com/calculator.php
TD Calculator: www.ReduceYourWorkersComp.com/transitional-duty-cost-calculator.php
WC 101: www.ReduceYourWorkersComp.com/workers_comp.php
Do not use this information without independent verification. All state laws are different. Consult with your corporate legal counsel before implementing any cost containment programs.