Workers Medical Care
When a person is injured at work, the workers' compensation in Arizona is designed to provide the worker immediate medical care and compensation for lost time at work.
At times, injured employees have hired a personal injury lawyer. People who have been injured and happen to have a regular doctor sometimes keep a written record of who that doctor is with their employer. After a claim is filed and approved the insurance company involved may approve the doctor the injured employee has chosen. Sometimes, the insurance company may reject the employee's doctor and require another. Sometimes the employee's doctor may be rejected by the insurance company for the first thirty days only. After that time, the employee could be free to receive treatment from the doctor of his or her choice.
People who have had their doctor of choice rejected have at times utilized the services of a Phoenix personal injury attorney. One problem that exists when injured employee's are forced to use, even at the initial stage only, the insurance company's preferred doctor, the doctor could cause problems with the extent of the employee's claim. This occurs when the diagnosis made by the insurance doctor is less extensive as it relates to the true injuries of the employee.
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