Medical Questionnaires in Workers Compensation Cases

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Assess Your Knowledge: Medical Questionnaires in Workers Compensation

Are you well-versed in handling medical questionnaires related to workers compensation cases? This quiz is designed to challenge your understanding of critical concepts in identifying and addressing injuries and their aggravations.

Test your knowledge on determining compensation injuries.
Learn how to effectively communicate with medical professionals.
Gain insights into the importance of IMEs and their applications.

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How do you know your client has an overcompensation injury.

You should be mining your caseload with every call to the client asking questions like how is your left knee doing after surgery? Are you having any problems with your right knee?

When the client calls in and tells me he has an overcompensation injury

When the attorney recognizes an overcompensation injury.

When the ATP says there is an overcompensation injury.

How do you know your client has an aggravation or exacerbation of a pre-existing injury?

When the doctor says the client has an aggravation or exacerbation of an old injury.

When the client says they have had an aggravation or exacerbation of an old injury.

When opposing counsel says your clients injury is an aggravation or exacerbation of an old injury.

When medical records document an old injury to the same body part the new injury is considered an aggravation or exacerbation of the pre-existing injury.

Your client Mrs. G slipped and fell landing forward onto her bilateral knees and outstretched hands. The workers compensation insurance has authorized the treatment of her bilateral hands and knees but now her low back is hurting. How would you word a causation questionnaire to the ATP to see if he believes her low back pain is related to the work injury?

I believe Ms. Gs injuries to her lumbar spine are directly a result of the January 9 2020 work injury. DR X March 23 2021

In my medical opinion within a reasonable degree of medical certainty Ms. G's mechanism of injury wherein she fell forward landing on her bilateral knees and outstretched hands is of the kind and type of injury that could medically reasonably produce injury to her lumbar spine.

The mechanism of injury caused Ms. G to sustain injury to her lumbar spine.

What do we use 202 IME's for? Check all that are correct.

Explain why our client is not getting better despite medical treatment

Counter an unfavorable medical opinion regarding a recommended surgery/test.

Use it to estimate a possible PPD rating.

To expand medical care and cover things like exacerbation of an old injury and/or overcompensation injuries.

Show that our client is crazy

Correct medical records.

Your client has a left knee injury and slips and falls in the tub injuring her bilateral knees. What do you think?

Well there goes a perfectly good claim she has now suffered an intervening injury to her work injury.

Did her left knee give out causing her to slip and fall in the tub - I'm going to call the client and find out.

I'm going to send a questionnaire to the doctor and ask if the work injury caused this slip and fall.

Immediately call the client and explain the complications of an intervening new injury - and ask if the injured knee contributed to the fall and make sure she knows to address this with the doctor so he puts it in his medical notes.

Immediately call the client and explain the complications of an intervening new injury and ask her if she felt the injured knee may have contributed to her fall and make sure she tells the doctor about it then draft up a medical questionnaire for the doctor to sign saying the left knee injury caused a super added injury to her right knee when it gave out in the shower causing her to fall and sustaining injury to the right knee.

Medical Questionnaires in Workers Compensation Cases

Assess Your Knowledge: Medical Questionnaires in Workers Compensation

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