Coordinated Multidisciplinary Panel IME’s
In the workers’ compensation system, obtaining independent medical exams for conditions requiring input from more than one specialty can be a laborious process. By the time a referral source gets answers, the questions may have changed with the passage of time, while the indemnity and treatment dollars keep adding up. Other problems with this process include claimant cooperation, exam coordination, duplicate file review costs and, ultimately, the usefulness of a variety of uncoordinated, recommendations for developing a comprehensive case plan.
What is needed is a coordinated panel of experts, who can all examine a patient on the same day, each opining on the presenting issue from their specialty, and then getting together around the same table with the other experts to staff the case. From this, the referring party can get one cohesive summary report that gives clear recommendations with consideration given to the entire medical claim picture. Centennial Rehabilitation now offers such a product in it’s Coordinated Multidisciplinary Panel IME’s.
Specialties Available
- Physical Medicine
- Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Medicine
- Psychology
- Neuropsychology
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Chiropractic
Key to this product is a Multidisciplinary Staffing which takes into account the viewpoints of all the involved specialists. The results of this are distilled in a Summary Report incorporating all of these viewpoints into a unified recommendation for case direction. So therefore, rather than trying to reconcile several independent evaluations, the referral source receives a pragmatic and comprehensive set of recommendations in one report.
Benefits
- Experts who “talk to each other,” contributing to a cohesive overall impression of a claimant’s condition
- Time savings realized from avoiding multiple sequential exams
- A “lead” physician doing file review, thereby avoiding the expense of duplicate reviews
- Ease of coordination and enhanced claimant cooperation
- Therefore, a practical plan of action for care and case resolution