Workers comp doctors
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORK COMP DOCTOR AND AN NON WORK COMP DOCTOR? THE REASON BEING THAT A SOCIAL SECURITY JUDGE IN DENVER TOLD ME AND TWO OTHER PEOPLE THAT THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE? CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME? AND WHY DOES WORK COMP PAY THERE DOCTORS MORE THAN NON WORK COMP DOCTORS? AND HOW COME AFTER TALKING WITH LOTS OF LAWYERS AND DOCTORS AND ALSO SOME JUDGES THEY ALL SEEM TO AGREE THAT WORK COMP IN COLORADO IS SERIOUSLY FLAWED AND IS GEARED TOWARDS THE INSURANCE COMPANY S AND THE EMPLOYERS? SO MY QUESTION IS AFTER ALL OF THIS IS WHY DO WE NOT INVESTIGATE AND CHANGE THIS WOEFULLY FLAWED SYSTEM?
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Workman's comp is for the employer not the employee so therefore the doctors are also for the employer. In other words they are prostitutes for the system. They really don't care about you for the most part, you aren't paying them. I am speaking from experience. I was injured at work and got stuck in the system for 4 yrs. I had to get a lawyer to defend myself. There used to be a time when you didn't need a lawyer when dealing with WC but not anymore! I would suggest anyone with a severe injury and is going through hell with the company over it, get your own lawyer!
Posted by Lisa on September 22, 2007 02:20 PMLisa, perfectly well said. I have watched one family member after another get chewed up by comp.
They send investigators to take pictures and spy on the claimants, most of the time the judges throw out the pictures but all that costs money you know.
For the one cheater they find all suffer from doctors who claim the injury is imagined or happened somewhere other that on the job.
They deny surgery and treatment until the problem is so bad it can never be treated.
Posted by Sharon B. on September 22, 2007 07:25 PMMy ex-wife was stuck in the colorado worker's comp mess for over 5 years and it cost us our marriage. is there any wonder way that the colorado worker's comp symbol is a circle.
Posted by on September 23, 2007 03:09 AMThe differance in comp doctors and noncomp doctors is compatance. It is easy to say oh it is money and corporations have bought off doctors. Actually it is even simpler. Comp Doctors are lacking in skill and knowledge. This is why the system sends patients in circles when trying to treat an ailment.
Yes companies want this to take place as they do ot want to pay out or be held responsible for mnost accidentas on the job. Now in no way am I giving a pass to all employees. Many are looking for a way to abuse the system and get something for nothing as well.
The problem with health care in this country is not the treatment persay but with the insurance companies who have gotten laws enacted that favor them not paying on claims.
Posted by AntiInsurance Companies on September 23, 2007 08:51 AMLisa, you are right but, perhaps, for the wrong reasons. Workmans Compensation is an artifice created by purposely complicated and vague language, the lawyers who contrived it, who then present themselves as the solution to it. There is not one government program that does not suffer from this. Bureaucracies are created by language and the language of them are the product of lawyer's purposely confusing planning. Lawyers are bad enough on their own but ,when government is add to that already overly complicated mix, the result makes it impossible for anyone, includung lawyers, doctors and anyones else, to understand anything at all about workmans comp.
Posted by Allen Campbell on September 23, 2007 10:05 AMI've never seen such a screwed up Workman's Comp system than in Colorado.
My husband hurt his knee at work.He was sent to a workman's Comp Dr. and he said there was nothing wrong with it. Though it looked like he had a baseball inside of his knee. So my husband had to go back to work.
Had this happened in the state we moved from. He would have went to his own Dr. and put on rest and paid for his time off.He would not have lost his job either.
This system out here is really messed up. From what I hear the state charges outrageous Workman Comp insurance premiums.So if a company has any claims it's rates go up. That is an incentive for companies not to take care of their employees.
In the state where I moved from the money is pooled and everyone has a certain fee to pay depending on how many employees,but their rates don't go up if the company has a claim.
I think that is more fair
CIGAA, you seem so unhappy here....why don't you go back to where you came from?????
Posted by WatchinTheWeb on September 24, 2007 10:12 AMAnd why didn't your husband go to his own doctor anyway? I would have.
Posted by WatchinTheWeb on September 24, 2007 10:14 AMJust saying, if you work, your day may come. I have a large family who works in construction and your attitude is what keeps this system going.
Poor little insurance company pansy.
Posted by Sharon B. on September 24, 2007 12:34 PM