Workers Compensation Directory: Service Providers to Help Achieve Your Goals

Specialists, Experts, and Professional Service Providers

Attorneys Attorneys specializing in employer defense and helping employers reduce costs. Workers’ Comp Attorneys	Audits Make sure your premium calculations, class codes and payroll audits are correct. WC Insurance Premium Audits
Brokerage Services Access to brokerage services, including Coverage Analysis, Insurance Placement, Loss Control, Claim Advocacy, Global Risk Management Services and more. Brokerage Services	Claim Adjusting Addresses core problems such as inconsistency in claim practices and failure to identify complex files early in the life of a claim. Workers’ Comp Claim Adjusting
Claims Review / File Reviews Onsite reviews of claim files to review reserves, determine if treatment is appropriate, and if handling meets industry best practices. Workers’ Comp Claim Review/ File Reviews	Clinics / Exams In-house or offsite clinics to treat injured employees. Triage for treatment of injured workers. Occupational Clinics & Pre-employment Exams
Consultants Cost Containment Consultants who specialize in helping employers implement policies and programs in the workplace to do all of the things you’ll read about here. Workers’ Comp Consultants	Federal Workers Compensation (FECA) This directory includes companies specializing in products and services for federal government agencies and associated organizations.Federal / FECA
Indemnity Cost Controls Methods to reduce time away from work, including functional capacity evaluations, retraining and other creative methods. Workers’ Compensation Indemnity Cost Control	Investigators Verification of the degree of disability can be done with surveillance and other types of investigative techniques. Workers’ Compensation Investigators
Job Placement for Injured Workers Find jobs for injured workers and determine whether employees are cooperating with your return to work efforts. Workers’ Comp Job Placement for Injured Workers	Loss Control / Safety Pre-loss specialists who help with accident prevention, investigation and OSHA compliance. Workers’ Comp Loss Control / Safety Consultants
M.D. Advisors Medical Doctors to review claims and medical records, write IME cover letters, contact treating physicians, look for alternative causes of injury and verify an injury is work-related and treatment is appropriate. Workers’ Comp Medical Doctor (M.D.) Advisors	Medical Cost Containment Services Bill review, utilization review, pharmacy bill review, nurse case management and other services which control the cost of medical services. Workers’ Comp Medical Cost Containment Vendors
Medicare Compliance Employers are required to set aside the amount of future medical expenses. Compliance is complex and there are heavy fines for non-compliance. Workers’ Comp Medicare Set-Aside Compliance	Nurse Triage Intervention programs designed to help eliminate unnecessary emergency room and clinic visits by converting incidents into self-treatment cases. Nurse Triage
Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Manage your workers’ compensation medical costs and provide your employees the effective medical treatments they need. Workers’ Comp Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation	Pre-employment Screening Drug, alcohol, impairment, psychological and medical testing is used to make sure employees can perform their jobs safely without injury to themselves or others in the workplace. Pre-employment Screening
Return to Work Services Services specializing in work placement for difficult claims such as home-based work, charity or volunteer arrangements when you cannot work onsite. Alternatives to workplace return to work programs. Workers’ Comp Return to Work Services	Risk Management Information Systems Risk Management Information Systems (RMIS) provide ongoing access to measurements and reports on which to base performance improvement. Risk Management Information Systems

Workers’ Compensation = Workers’ Comp = WC*

*Formerly referred to as Workmans’ Compensation.

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