These Workers Comp Clinics are a Sham. You Can Get a Real Doctor for Your Work Injury.
You get hurt on the job and you report it to your supervisor. You are then told that there’s a company doctor (or a workers’ comp doctor, or a workers’ clinic). They tell you that everyone who gets hurt on the job goes to this clinic. It’s convenient. The “doctor” can see you right away (first of all, you’re probably not even seeing a doctor, or if you are, it is not a doctor who is a specialist, and it’s probably one who can’t find any other job, but don’t get me started on these “Workers Clinics” – I wouldn’t let them treat my dog, and I don’t even like my dog)!
They’ll tell you it’s free. So is all of your medical treatment under DC worker’s compensation? Don’t believe it.
You are entitled to proper medical care from an appropriate specialist if you are injured at work. In D.C. and Maryland, you have the right to choose your own physician. In Virginia, you can choose one of a panel of three qualified physicians.
In D.C. and Maryland, workers’ compensation insurance companies try to trick you into going to a “work injury clinic,” which they probably fund or subsidize. Who do you think the work injury clinic doctor would prioritize—you, or the insurance companies and employers that he/she works with? And that sends the clinic all of its patients?
Make sure you choose a physician who has his or her patient’s best interests at heart—not one who relies on insurance companies to send them patients or is bullied by insurance company nurses and adjusters into limiting expensive medical tests and treatment or rushing you back to work before your injury has healed.
Contact a D.C. Workers’ Compensation Attorney
As workers’ compensation attorneys in D.C., we hear about a lot of these types of tricks insurance companies and employers try to use. And we’re tired of seeing insurance companies using these traps to delay workers’ comp benefits to hard workers after an injury at work.
That is why we wrote 5 Common Mistakes that will Absolutely Kill Your Workers Compensation Case: a report that lists five of the most common tricks, tactics and traps insurance companies use to deny, delay and pay less to workers and their families for medical treatment and workers’ compensation benefits after an injury at work.
And we’re giving this report to injured workers and their families for free. Call today at (202) 393-3320 or click here to order your copy today.