A number of HMOs failed because they used network care practices that made the customers very upset. A lot of the doctors in the network were pretty bad. Considering how many injured workers are already being sent to storefront scam doctors by private insurers and the federal government, isn’t networked care just going to insure that the scam doctors get even more of the business?
It appears that the injured worker will be the one who is penalized by this proposal. They will spend even more time fighting for appropriate care when the “network” doctors try to cut costs.
The answer to cutting costs is to prevent injuries. If they want to keep medical care costs down, they need to listen to injured workers and treat them with respect. It’s no picnic to be put through a bunch of unnecessary tests by a store front doctor.
MOST injured workers want to get better and go back to work. But, insurance companies and the Labor Department treat every injured worker like some sort of criminal. Treat the injured workers badly and they will have little desire to help control costs. Delay their compensation and treatment for years and you almost guarantee a poor outcome.
Before the industry is trusted to control a “medical care network system” it needs to explain the perjury by State Farm Executives. If State Farm Executives will commit perjury to the IRS how could they be trusted to “implement an effective medical network system”? I have the documentation to prove the prejury. Rich Pyorre Fort Bragg, CA
Florida. took Chiropractors out of the system some time back and saw that there was no true effect on the problem. The costs of care were not lowered as anticipated.
It is not appropriate for the injured workers to be limited in there choices of treatment algorithms.
The subject that just gets glazed over is the failure of this state to implement appropriate guidelines of care that are evidence based. Texas has been without clinical guidelines of practice for a number of years. Further the guidelines that we had, were not updated as often as appropriate based on advances in the medical community. Washington put together a program, developed there own guidelines and seemed to plug there gushing wound called workers compensation.
It is time for Texas to make appropriate decisions that will secure injured workers options and not waste time with band-aid fixes that have no evidence of effectiveness.
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A number of HMOs failed because they used network care practices that made the customers very upset. A lot of the doctors in the network were pretty bad. Considering how many injured workers are already being sent to storefront scam doctors by private insurers and the federal government, isn’t networked care just going to insure that the scam doctors get even more of the business?
It appears that the injured worker will be the one who is penalized by this proposal. They will spend even more time fighting for appropriate care when the “network” doctors try to cut costs.
The answer to cutting costs is to prevent injuries. If they want to keep medical care costs down, they need to listen to injured workers and treat them with respect. It’s no picnic to be put through a bunch of unnecessary tests by a store front doctor.
MOST injured workers want to get better and go back to work. But, insurance companies and the Labor Department treat every injured worker like some sort of criminal. Treat the injured workers badly and they will have little desire to help control costs. Delay their compensation and treatment for years and you almost guarantee a poor outcome.
Before the industry is trusted to control a “medical care network system” it needs to explain the perjury by State Farm Executives. If State Farm Executives will commit perjury to the IRS how could they be trusted to “implement an effective medical network system”? I have the documentation to prove the prejury. Rich Pyorre Fort Bragg, CA
I guess, then, it’s a good thing State Farm doesn’t write worker’s comp insurance.
Florida. took Chiropractors out of the system some time back and saw that there was no true effect on the problem. The costs of care were not lowered as anticipated.
It is not appropriate for the injured workers to be limited in there choices of treatment algorithms.
The subject that just gets glazed over is the failure of this state to implement appropriate guidelines of care that are evidence based. Texas has been without clinical guidelines of practice for a number of years. Further the guidelines that we had, were not updated as often as appropriate based on advances in the medical community. Washington put together a program, developed there own guidelines and seemed to plug there gushing wound called workers compensation.
It is time for Texas to make appropriate decisions that will secure injured workers options and not waste time with band-aid fixes that have no evidence of effectiveness.