In Idaho worker\u2019s compensation cases the doctors control the most important evidence ie causation, restrictions and impairment. As the injured person you have to come forward with medical evidence in the form of opinions from your doctor to support your Idaho worker\u2019s compensation claim. Often your employer will send you to a physician there insurance company always uses. This could be a physician\u2019s assistant or a doctor. Often these physicians will try to get you back to work as soon as possible. Let us say you injured you back. You go to PA your employer sent you to and he thinks you are fine gives you some pain meds and sends you back to work. You want a second opinion. You go see a spine specialist. They determine you need to be off work for a while to heal and get better. Unfortunately you didn\u2019t get a referral to the spine specialist from that PA you first saw, and your employer won\u2019t accept the spine specialist\u2019s opinion. Even though the spine specialist has done countless number of spinal surgeries and went to school for four years and had an additional six years of training. Doesn\u2019t make sense right? It doesn\u2019t to me either.<\/p>\n
Always try and get a written referral from a doctor the Idaho worker\u2019s compensation insurance company has paid as a part Idaho worker\u2019s compensation claim. The new doctor will then be in the referral chain and\u3000 Idaho worker\u2019s compensation insurance company will then be required to pay the new doctor so long as you can prove through medical testimony that the care they provide is reasonable.<\/p>\n
In the end the treating physician\u2019s opinion will have more weight and so will the spine specialist, but until that time comes, you are caught up in the doctor game. An expert Idaho worker\u2019s compensation attorney can help you get the treatment you need. Idaho worker\u2019s compensation lawyers work with medical professionals all the time and know who to refer you to get the proper treatment.<\/p>\n
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