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WorkSafeBC / BY: Patrick Wong January/February 2023
... a surgeon receives written approval for surgery from a WorkSafeBC board officer. It is important for surgeons to ... performs a surgery for an injured worker covered by WorkSafeBC within a certain time frame. It is not billed ... current practice of billing MSP for multiple procedures. How do you qualify a surgery for the ESP? The Figure shows ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Eytan David, MD, FRCSC March 2023
... allows us to address several relevant questions: How do we evaluate tinnitus causality? How do we fairly represent the evidence for impairment and ... Rodebaugh TL, Lenze EJ. Tinnitus. JAMA 2020;323:1497-1498. WorkSafeBC Assessing tinnitus and disability ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tung Siu, MD, CCFP, ACBOM May 2023
... they may be able to help. If your patient has a WorkSafeBC claim, you can also reach out to a WorkSafeBC medical advisor. State what you can measure ... Is there something your patient cannot do no matter how hard they try? For example, despite good effort, a ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Patricia M. Massel, MD June 2023
... and their experiences. Final themes were selected based on how frequently they occurred in interviews and on patient ... challenge patients face. Health care providers commended WorkSafeBC, local Indigenous communities, and the First ... whether family would be able to accompany them, and how they would return home. One interviewee said, “They ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tanya Fairweather, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2023
... should be off work completely, the next question is often how to get financial support for their absence. For WorkSafeBC coverage, there must be an identified and accepted ... involves two required steps. The first requirement is for WorkSafeBC adjudicative staff to accept a mechanism of injury ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME July/August 2023
... and nurse practitioners can refer patients with a WorkSafeBC claim to a specialist and have it billed to WorkSafeBC. No prior WorkSafeBC authorization is required by ... the Richmond WorkSafeBC Visiting Specialist Clinic (VSC). How to request an expedited referral to a community ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tung Siu, MD, CCFP, ACBOM October 2023
... Sir William Meredith to make recommendations on how to establish a workers’ compensation system in Ontario. ... are of more vital importance.”[ 3 ] This is how WorkSafeBC became the occupational health and safety ... and illness, in addition to being a compensation board. WorkSafeBC’s mandate today The Workers Compensation Act has ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM November 2023
... plan, your patient’s employer needs to understand how your patient’s workplace condition affects their ... Employers receive the accepted claim diagnosis from WorkSafeBC, but they otherwise receive only the information ... contacting the employer, speak with a medical advisor from WorkSafeBC. Don’t hesitate to make a RACE request by phone ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Harvey Koochin, MD December 2023
... care have all influenced the role of the physical exam. WorkSafeBC depends on external information to adjudicate a ... and recovery from a workplace injury or illness. When a WorkSafeBC medical advisor (a physician) reviews claims, they ... improving the accuracy of diagnoses and cautions that “how you perform the physical exam, and how often you perform ...