Workers' Compensation
Providing comprehensive services for injured workers & employers
With Agile's workers’ compensation injury care services, your employees get convenient access to high-quality care at a lower cost and in an appropriate setting. By reducing unnecessary ER visits, we’ll help you contain your healthcare expenditures.
Workplace injuries are a complicated issue. Our first priority is making sure the injured person gets quality treatment and care. Your employees deserve to be treated by skilled, ethical medical providers who will not take advantage of their workers’ comp insurance and make sure they are given the full-service treatment they need.
The following services can be utilized for your organization's workers' compensation program:
- Injury Treatment
- Continued Care Coordination
- Referrals to Specialists
Agile provides advanced therapy and medical care along with the compassion, motivation and hope to help someone who has been injured on the job reach the highest level of recovery and participation in life. We offer a complete workers’ compensation continuum of care to assist your injured worker in achieving the highest functional level possible, regardless of the medical complexity of the injury.
Work comp injury treatment includes:
Acute and post-injury medical management
Modified duty return-to-work program
Emergency department coordination for 24/7 workers
Medical surveillance and drug/alcohol screening programs
Physical and occupational therapy
Talk to one of our Workers' Comp specialists about your needs.
Contact Agile today for a no-obligation, free quote on setting up comprehensive workers' comp coverage program for your company. Our specialists will review your requirements, make recomendations and present you with options to ensure your employees stay healthy and safe
More on Workers' Comp
Overview
Work Comp vs Occ Med
Why Agile?
Overview
The Agile approach to Workers' Comp
Our approach is to aggressively manage an emplyees care within the workers’ compensation environment. The Patient-Physician relationship is a critical component of the workers’ compensation claim, and the right management of care can have a significant impact on the overall duration, cost, and lost time in a claim.
We manage care within ACOEM and ODG guidelines, assuring compliance with authorizations and billing. At the same time, we are aggressive in our efforts to schedule timely visits and monitor the expected vs. actual progress of the patient. It is our fundamental belief that positive workers’ comp claims outcomes start with quality health care.
We also deliver quality care in a manner that aggressive drives claim resolution and reduces potential litigation by making sure the patient is aligned in their personal health goals and receives the care and support needed to keep them on track to a speedy recovery.
Our role in reducing the likelihood of litigation:
- Connect with the patient with an emphasis on making sure they feel heard, understand their injury, and have clear expectations of the treatment and recovery process
- Partner with managed care and insurance company to make sure patients receive timely care with approved doctors
- Track expectations for improvements in function and progression toward full duty or return to work, and provide consultation with employers and patients when this is not being achieved. (Idea here would be reduce the communication gap by getting the doctor, the patient, the employer, and the nurse case manager all on a conference call at the same time to discuss progress when patient is starting to come off the rails)
- Don’t lose control of the patient when specialists are involved. Stay engaged in the care – follow up with the specialists and maintain the role of centralizing documentation and work restrictions.
Agile's approach is an aggressive scheduling and case management process where our goal is to make sure patients get timely care and their progress toward recovery stays on track.
Work Comp vs Occ Med
How work comp differs from occupational medicine
Most employers view workers’ compensation and occupational medicine as the same thing. They are not and have many differences. Workers' compensation is a government-mandated insurance program, and each state’s program is different. Workers’ compensation, in most cases, guarantees that injured employees receive medical care as well as wages following an injury or illness caused by work or at the workplace.
Occupational medicine is the handling of illnesses or injuries caused by work, and the path of getting employees to full function. This includes specialized treatments and physical therapy that may be required as part of a patient’s treatment plan. Our clinicians are specialists in occupational medicine and treating workplace injuries.
Why Agile?
Occupational medicine specialists make a big difference
Many employers seek out an occupational medicine provider to help them navigate their workers’ compensation claims. On the surface, the decision of who to choose can seem straightforward, since most providers offer the same basic services. However, occupational health providers can vary widely when it comes to their approach—meaning one can take actions that result in dollars lost, while another provider can save significant costs.
So how can an employer make a wise decision? The key is to look beyond basic requirements:
- Agile is a full-time occupational health provider and not only qualified to diagnose and deliver patient care, but trained to do it as safely, swiftly and efficiently as possible.
- Our providers regularly perform many of the procedures that are commonly caused by workplace injuries. Examples include soft tissue foreign body removal, eye foreign body removal, joint dislocation treatment, and fracture care.
- We are accustomed to seeing high volumes of patients. This allows us to become highly skilled at case discernment and more apt to notice if a worker is exhibiting inappropriate behavior in relation to the injury.