Philadelphia Injured Worker Medical Care Attorney
If you have been injured at work, you have a right to seek medical care. Your employer must pay for the cost of the medical care, no matter how much the cost. Your company may have hired a rehabilitation nurse to assist you with or direct your medical care. The nurse is working for the company and not for you. Neither the rehabilitation nurse nor the employer is obligated to explain your rights under workers' compensation law.
Your employer is not obligated, however, to explain your rights under workers' compensation law. Frequently, in this law firm's experience, employers do not inform injured workers of their rights. This is just one of the many reasons why an attorney skilled in workers' compensation law can be of great service to injured workers.
Fighting for Injured Workers for 24-Plus Years. Talk to Philadelphia Medical Benefits Attorney Richard Jaffe.
Call: 215-268-7348 or 866-959-8856. E-mail the Firm.
Attorney Richard A. Jaffe can help you understand and exercise your rights to receive appropriate medical treatment. He is wholly committed to fighting for the rights of injured workers, and his work has earned inclusion in the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list* from 2005 through 2010, as well as a BV rating* for legal ability and ethical standards.
Your employer may inform you that you must be treated with the company physician — this is a doctor paid for by your employer's insurance — for the next 90 days. Can you really trust that the company doctor to be looking out for you or will you wonder if he is really just trying to get you back to work without letting you properly recover and heal from your injury?
What Employers Do Not Tell You About Your Medical Benefit Choices
What many employers do not tell you is that if the company has not followed the law relating to treating doctors, then you are free to go to your own medical doctor or family physician to get the medical care and treatment that you need. In order to control your medical treatment, your employer must have a list of doctors posted at work. However, if your employer does not post a list of doctors at your work site, you are actually allowed to get treated by whomever you choose.
We are able to get our clients away from treating with a company doctor. This is because many employers have not followed the law relating to establishing the list of doctors, which then allows you to be free to go to your own medical doctor. In addition to having the list of treating physicians posted, your employer is also required to have you sign a form acknowledging that you were made aware of the list of doctors, so that the company can control your medical treatment. We have represented many injured workers whose employers have given them incorrect information and helped them get quality care from their own family physician.
What Medical Benefits Include
Collateral benefits are benefits that are in addition to doctors' visits, but are medically related to work injuries:
- Prescription medicine
- Orthotics, including fittings
- In-home or visiting nurses
- Injury-related modifications to your home or vehicle
- Rehabilitation therapy and counseling
Get Answers — Talk to a Philadelphia Medical Benefits Attorney: 215-268-7348 or 866-959-8856. E-mail the Firm.
Visit our law office for a free initial consultation. Mr. Jaffe will review your case and help you understand all the different ways that this Philadelphia medical benefits attorney can help you and make sure that your rights are protected.
