At some point in the development of your occupational medicine services you are going to be looking at effective ways to expand the practice.
As I think about the “core” services, we are actually interacting with a very small percentage of our employee populations.
The concept of total worker health (TWH) represents a fundamental transformation in how occupational safety and health is recognized in the workplace.
The marketplace for the care of work injuries in the ’90s and 2000s underwent a significant shift from Family Practice Clinics (FPC) to Occupational Medicine Clinics (OMC).
Many research studies have been published showing that individuals who are hypertensive, diabetic, or asthmatic are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19.
The year 2020 started out as a dream come true for me.
As we recognize February as National Heart Month, much emphasis, and rightly so, is on heart health.
While it is easy to state this difference, circumstances are often nuanced to blur the differentiation.
While nearly every occupational health program is looking to gain some competitive edge, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, getting one of the providers designated as an FAA Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) is one way to offer an additional service line that is often overlooked by many programs and will help a program become even more elite.
The CMS and the AMA have finalized the biggest change to Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes that have occurred within the past 25+ years.
There’s probably nothing more aggravating to your employer clients than when they have sent an injured worker for care in your office or to the ED if after hours and they get … silence.
I was asked recently by a program director about a physician who routinely schedules work comp recheck visits out for 2 to 3 weeks, even after the first visit.