One of the benefits of afforded injured workers in Missouri is medical treatment provided and paid for by your employer's workers' compensation insurance company. Before you seek medical treatment for your work injury, it is important that the treatment be authorized by your employer's workers' compensation insurance carrier, or it will be your responsibility to pay it.
At the law firm of Spooner & Perkins, P.C., we offer a free initial consultation to discuss your right to receive medical care benefits if you have been injured on the job. Our attorneys represent injured workers throughout the Kansas City metro area and rural Missouri.
Do I Have a Right to Choose My Medical Provider?
If you are receiving workers' compensation benefits in Missouri, your employer (or the insurance company handling the claim) has the right to choose your medical provider. While many injured workers do not like this, unfortunately it is the law in Missouri.
Typically, your employer or their insurance carrier will send you to a workers' compensation clinic such as Concentra, Corporate Care, or OHS-Compcare, which is a facility with a group of doctors who treat only injured workers. The physicians at the workers' compensation clinic will often refer you to a specialist outside of the clinic if your injury requires specialty care.
Can I Receive a Second Opinion if I Do Not Agree With My Doctor?
You are required to receive your care from the authorized workers' compensation doctor until that doctor releases you to return to work or places you at maximum medical improvement. Once you are released and you are unsatisfied with the treatment you received, you can exercise your right to obtain an independent medical examination. In Missouri, you will have to pay for this second opinion. However, the cost may be worthwhile if you believe you are still injured and would like additional medical treatment.
In most cases, our lawyers will advance the cost of this second opinion. If we are successful in obtaining a workers' compensation settlement for you, the cost of the second opinion would be reimbursed to us out of your settlement proceeds.
Contact a Kansas City Workers' Compensation Claim Lawyer
Free initial consultation: Contact our Missouri injured worker medical treatment lawyers today to discuss your workers' compensation case. You can reach us by phone at 816-298-0580 or toll free at 866-548-6980 and via e-mail. We are paid on a contingency fee basis so there is no fee unless we obtain a settlement for you.
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