Vocational Expert, Robin Jackson, MHS, CRC of Horizon Health Care Consultants presents “Shoap Case Impact on Labor Market Surveys – Return to Kachinski?”
Guest Speaker, April 25, 2014
Horizon Celebrates 21 Years!
Horizon Health Care Consultants was established in 1994 by founder, Patricia A. McGinley, MA, RN. In April 2015, HHCC celebrated 21 years of success.
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Horizon Health Care Consultants, based in King of Prussia, PA is one of the leading providers of managed care services in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions for more than eleven years, and has been delivering flexible, innovative, and cost-effective managed care solutions for employers, third party administrators, and insurance carriers focused on injury prevention, early intervention, quality of care, and cost-containment since 1994.
Telephonic Case Management
As Workers’ Compensation costs continue to escalate, decision-makers with bottom line accountability are seeking more powerful methods of controlling claims costs. Employers know all too well the costly effects of work injuries, from the escalating medical costs to lost productivity.
Employers and Insurance Companies alike are realizing that work place injuries must be managed and controlled from the point of injury until return to work is achieved and the injury is resolved. Early involvement of a registered nurse in the initial assessment and management of the injury helps to facilitate a medically appropriate discharge from care by the physician and accelerates a return to work thereby achieving rapid case closure.
In the past, when an injury occurred the adjuster was responsible for adjusting the claim and controlling the medicals on the file. One might say that the adjuster was considered the “train engineer” of the claim. If the injury was considered a catastrophic, immediate referral was made to an outside nurse case manager to coordinate the medical aspects of the file. If the injury was not serious, a referral was usually not made to the nurse until after three months or sometimes longer. In this instance, the nurse would be considered the “caboose” of the claim.