Our business is about Injury Management and Rehabilitation to promote a healthy and productive return to work.
bsschiff@imcnsw.onmicrosoft.com
Suite 502, 5th Floor, 160 Castlereagh Street Sydney, NSW 2000
0412 615 668
Our business is about Injury Management and Rehabilitation to promote a healthy and productive return to work.
Suite 502, 5th Floor, 160 Castlereagh Street Sydney, NSW 2000
0412 615 668
The Injury/Illness Management Consultant (IMC) facilities and mediates achieving realistic, pragmatic, effective and sustainable return to "health” and work capacity across all industries.
The Injury/Illness medical consultation is a face to face examination usually for 60 minute duration in the IMC’s consulting rooms. This may require the assistance of an interpreter. During the consultation the injured or ill individual will be advised about the nature of the consultation, and the role of the IMC in relation to the consultation. The injured or ill individual will be questioned about their health, the nature of the injury or illness, the treatment and the nature of their work. They will be examined. In most cases the Treating Medical Providers (Nominated treating Doctor or Specialist; Allied health , Employer, Insurer or other parties related to the claim) may be contacted to discuss this consultation in regard to rehabilitation , health plans and return to work option.
The IMC Medical File review offers the same service of liaising and mediating with the Nominated Treating Doctor (NTD) and other Medical personnel involved in the Rehabilitation Process of the injured or ill individual. In this review there will not be any examination of the injured or ill individual. The IMC will review all the reports and create a report for best rehabilitation outcomes based on the information forwarded and the discussions with the relevant parties.
The Injury/Illness Management Consultant (IMC) may attend the Insurers offices /worksite / Employer etc. to educate and support all parties in providing opportunities for best practice and rehabilitation outcomes. The IMC can facilitate the rehabilitation process to assist in an individual achieving best “health" and return to work capacity.
The Injury/Illness Management Consultant (IMC) may liaise with the Nominated Treating Doctor (NTD) ; Nominated Treating Specialist (NTS) to further upgrade the rehabilitation processes . This may be to follow up plans that have been implemented and to ascertain upgrade in Medical capacity. This may be formalized in a Supplementary report or a secondary file review.
The IMC may liaise with the Employer to further upgrade the rehabilitation processes. This may be to follow up work opportunities; upgrades in work capacity, adaptations in the workplace to accommodate the return to work (RTW) process; determine if RTW duties are available such as suitable duties that are realistic, meaningful and sustainable. Upgrade RTW abilities in accordance with Medical capacity. This may be formalized in a Supplementary report or as secondary file review.
There are many agents in the Self-Insurance, Income Protection, Permanent Disability and WorkCover Insurance who administer claims. In managing these various claims; the claims assessors or case managers will gather medical and other information in order to determine whether they will accept liability for the claim. If liability is accepted, insurers will authorise or oversee a provision of reasonably necessary treatment. They may refer the ill or injured individual to approved workplace rehabilitation providers and may request the involvement of an Injury Management Consultant (IMC) to mediate and negotiate the return-to-work opportunities in keeping with the ill or injured individual’s capacity to work. They also may request the assessment from an injury management examiner (a specialist versed in the field of the medical injury) to ascertain the diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan. IMC Medical assists in promoting injury management strategies, rehabilitation processes and providing advice to the Insurer to assist in achieving health" and return-to-work capacity for their clients.
The rehabilitation providers provide specialised expertise in addition to that generally available within the employer’s and insurer’s operations. These may be physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, nurses or other paramedical individuals who have expertise in assisting the rehabilitation process and coordination between the worker, employer and the return-to-work plan for effective workplace rehabilitation in relation to the medical capacity and the work and duties available. The IMC may liaise with these rehabilitation providers to optimise the return-to-work rehabilitation plans for best work outcomes and upgrades in work capacity accordingly. The IMC and rehabilitation providers usually are a team approach for the worker’s capacity in regard to the Nominated Treating Doctor’s medical certification, also liaising with the employer and insurer for best practice outcomes. This can involve implementing ergonomic workstations; adaptations of tools; suitable duties that are in keeping with the worker’s abilities in line with the injured diagnosis and treatment.
A case conference may be requested by the insurer, employer, or rehabilitation provider to discuss with the Nominated Treating Doctor return-to-work opportunities in relation to the ill or injured individual's capacity to work. The case conference can be an excellent tool to facilitate all parties requirements and sitting down and negotiating a transparent rehabilitation process so that everybody is of the understanding of the requirements involved and the process going forward. The case conference is an ideal tool to try and establish working opportunities between all parties.
Rehabilitation is a treatment or treatments designed to facilitate the process of recovery from injury, illness or disease to as normal a condition as possible. The purpose of rehabilitation is to restore some or all of the patient’s physical, sensory and mental capabilities that were lost due to injury, illness or disease. Rehabilitation includes assisting the patient to compensate for deficits that cannot be reversed medically. Rehabilitation addresses the patient’s physical, psychological and environmental needs. It is to assist restoring the patient’s physical functions in both the physical, social and avocational environments. Rehabilitation is usually a team effort with various parties, medical and paramedical to assist the injured person to achieve optimal positive outcomes and best capacity for return to well-being going forward both in the physical, social, avocational and world of work.
The IMC can best assist in mediating and facilitating all these factors to ascertain best outcomes.
Medicine is an ever evolving science with new options in treatments evolving over time. The IMC can assist in reviewing the evidenced based medicine in determining if the recommend treatment is appropriate for this worker. The IMC may liaise with the treatment providers who are recommending these treatments to clarify best practice and best medical outcomes pertaining to Work Cover rehabilitation recommendations.
The Injury/Illness Management Consultant (IMC) can evaluate the medical and physical capacity of the injured or ill individual, review all the medical treatments, correspondence, rehabilitation entities and all activities related to the rehabilitation plan. With this information the IMC can ascertain the injured or ill individual's readiness for work in regard to timeframes and appropriate medical restrictions and management options. The IMC can review the progress and assist in upgrading the return-to-work plan. This may involve contacting the employer to assist with identifying suitable duties for upgrades. This may include providing advice on the Self-Insurance policies or workers compensation system and what inputs delay the return-to-work can have on financial status and rehabilitation process. The IMC can liaise with the Nominated Treating Doctor to discuss medical options and capacity in relation to the duties available with the employer. Through liaising and discussing capacity and ability with the Nominated Treating Doctor, the insurers, the employers, rehabilitation providers and all other parties involved in the individual’s rehabilitation process, the IMC attempts to mediate a solution through discussions with every party as required.
The goal would be to assit the injured / ill worker to "Recover whilst at work"