Strategies in Workers&#039; Compensation

Richard E. Sall

doi:10.5771/9781461626848

Summary

Strategies in Workers' Compensation, written with the healthcare medical professional in mind, describes the nuts and bolts of workers compensation. The book details the history, laws, various stakeholders, costs, and problems encountered by healthcare providers. An emphasis is placed on the "difficult patient" with regard to management techniques for doctors, insurance companies, and employers. In addition, Strategies in Workers' Compensation offers reference material to aid in understanding the complex workers' compensation system.

Human resource professionals, insurance adjusters, case managers, and nurses will find the information contained in this book useful in confronting the myriad of problems that arise within their respective fields. This book is a valuable resource for anyone who deals with the injured worker.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2004
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-2771-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-2684-8
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 181
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Prologue No access
3. Introduction No access
1. History No access
2. Early America No access
3. The Industrial Revolution No access
4. The Company Doctor No access
5. Board Recognition No access
1. Laws No access
2. Compensation No access
3. Choice of Physician No access
4. Independent Medical Examinations No access
5. Mental Health Claims No access
6. Role of Insurance Companies No access
7. Medical Treatment No access
8. Quality of Medical Care No access
9. Costs No access
10. History No access
11. Problem Areas No access
12. Statistical Data No access
13. Fraud No access
14. Occupational Medicine No access
1. Patients No access
2. Background No access
3. Other Parties No access
4. The Workers' Compensation System No access
5. Goals No access
6. Modified Duty No access
7. Medication No access
8. Rehabilitation No access
9. Progress No access
10. Family Members No access
11. Supervisor No access
12. Case Manager No access
13. Practice Guidelines No access
14. Delayed Recovery No access
15. Patient Relations No access
16. Basic Interview No access
17. Return to Work No access
18. System No access
19. Stress of Injury No access
20. Disability No access
21. Chronic Pain No access
22. Theory No access
1. Statistics No access
2. Managed Care No access
3. Insurance Investigators No access
4. Insurance No access
5. Return to Work No access
1. Background No access
2. Emotional Disorders No access
3. Simulation Disorders No access
4. Diagnostic Studies No access
5. Rehabilitation No access
6. Litigation No access
7. Lost Productivity No access
8. Tertiary Gain No access
9. Chronic Pain No access
10. Fitness for Duty No access
11. Employer's Representative No access
12. The Supervisor No access
13. Insurance No access
14. Permanent Disability No access
15. Disability Awards No access
16. Summary No access
1. Program Variations No access
2. Standards No access
3. Past Analysis No access
4. Surveys No access
5. Other Practice Parameters No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Emotional Pain No access
3. Personality Disorder Traits No access
4. Chronic Disability Syndromes No access
5. Definitions No access
6. Problem No access
7. Causation No access
8. Management No access
9. Chronic Pain No access
10. The Second Injury No access
1. Malingering No access
2. Compensation Neurosis No access
3. Factitious Disorders No access
1. Background No access
2. Malingering No access
3. Further Clues to Malingering No access
4. Non-organic Signs No access
5. Other Useful Tests in the Physical Examination No access
6. Other Useful Signs That Point to Non-organic Pain No access
7. Profile No access
8. Factitious Disorder No access
9. Somatoform Disorders No access
10. Compensation Neurosis No access
11. Strategy No access
12. Summary No access
1. Functions No access
2. Roles No access
3. Effectiveness No access
4. Management No access
5. Competing Interests No access
6. The Scope of Occupational Medicine No access
7. Essential Components No access
8. Preventive Medicine No access
9. Environmental Medicine No access
10. Disability Management No access
1. Past History No access
2. Recommendations No access
3. Certified Medical Providers No access
4. Transform the Disability Award System No access
5. Employee Counseling No access
6. Supervisor Training No access
7. Summar No access
1. Case #1 The dog bitten patient that became paralyzed No access
2. Case #2 The dishonest laborer with a changing history No access
3. Case #3 The warehouse worker with a hernia No access
4. Case #4 A back injury with no pre-placement physical No access
5. Case #5 The hotel worker claiming job stress No access
6. Case #6 The parolee on a work program No access
7. Case #7 The brain damaged patient accused of fraud No access
8. Case #8 Head trauma patient accused of fraud No access
9. Case #9 The worker sued the insurance company for malicious prosecution No access
1. Attachment A Comparison of Payments Between the States Of the U.S. for Workers' Compensation Medical Services No access
2. Attachment B Barkemeyer-Callon-Jones Malingering Detection Scale No access
References No access Pages 167 - 178
Index No access Pages 179 - 180
About the Author No access Pages 181 - 181