Personal Injury Archives

Personal Injury In Practice Seminar this Tuesday!

October 9, 2020 by cphealth

Attention all Chiropractors, Medical Professionals, and Attorneys!

Join us this Tuesday, October 13, at The Mill in Roswell for some CME credits and fun at our Personal Injury In Practice Seminar Series. Our first topic of discussion will be Exam and Diagnosis. We will dig into ICD-11 and how to maximize it to help heal your patient and build a solid case file as well as other vital information. This is a registered CME seminar for medical professionals.

The seminar begins at 4 PM and will run through 7 PM. Questions, cocktails, food, and fun will start at 7 PM and will wrap up at 9 PM.

Click HERE to Register!

This event is brought to by Workplace Wellness, CP Healthcare, Elite Radiology, and My MRI Guy.

Make Personal Injury an integral part of your practice today!

All Personal Injury Imaging Consolodated

April 28, 2020 by cphealth

What’s the most important factor in getting your Personal Injury Case rolling?

Correct!

Determining your client/patient level of injury is your top priority as soon as they present to your law firm or medical clinic.

And the next step to verify injury and treatment plans lies in the images that need to be ordered and completed.

CP Healthcare has that covered for you in a single-source option. CP has more than 100 locations in Georgia, as well as locations in all 50 states, to help you get your clients/patients scheduled quickly and safely. We have centers that have been deemed “COVID sensitive locations” that are set up to serve those clients with underlying health condition and for those patients who are 55 and older. All of our locations are going above and beyond to sanitize and to maintain social distancing procedures.

In addition to our safe scheduling, we offer every scan option you need. From a DTI and 3T imaging to basic X-Rays, we can handle what you need to confirm your diagnosis and establish a treatment plan.

CP Healthcare can even provide 3D images and NeuroQuant reports at your request for your injured clients/patients. Anything you need to establish treatment. Everything you need to bring to trial. CP can help you and your clients/patients.

Finally, we are here to provide what you need to close your case. CP Healthcare provides all original billing for trial. Our settlement negotiations are also better than sending it directly to the imaging center. Yes, our billing is more sound. How? Even if you have an “In-House Lien”, that’s not always the best option for your case. In most all cases, our ability to negotiate the settlement will be easier and lower than dealing with the red-tape of a corporate owned imaging facility or private-equity owned funding company.

I’d love to speak with you more about how we operate. CP Healthcare is the experts in Personal Injury Imaging. Imaging is all we do! We know how to help get treatment started quicker on the front end, provide all resources to build your case and save you headaches at settlement time.

Click HERE to set up some time to see how I can help!

Stay safe and healthy!

Blessings!

Medical Funding: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

April 21, 2020 by cphealth

What comes to your mind when you hear the words… “Funding Company”?

I’ve had attorneys and imaging center owners both use the term “necessary evil” on more than a few occasions. I’ve had other attorneys and imaging centers also call them “vital”.

So, why is there such a divide and a black-and-white view of medical funding companies in our industry?

You can come up with many reasons, but at the end of the day it all boils down to contracts and settlements.

Contracts have been under the microscope for the past few years. Cases against medical funding companies, pre-settlement advance companies, and physicians have been on the rise throughout the United States. And the main reason behind this increase is bad contracts.

There’s a perfect mix when it comes to the formation of a medical contract in personal injury. There has to be room for the case to breathe. There also has to be room for everyone involved to be compensated fairly if the case is valid. What our industry has seen over the past few years is an influx of speculators. A lot of the medical funding companies that popped up do not have a background in finance or medicine. They are strictly groups using our industry like the stock market. Trying to make the quick buck until the market is drained due to their greed. They are only willing to stay in the game until laws change. They are also the ones behind bad contracts that lead to greed that leads to laws being changed.

And this moves us to the second part of this discussion.

Settlements are the final tipping point when it comes to the worth of a funding company. Bad contracts and greed lead to difficult settlements. Difficult settlements lead to unhappy adjusters, pissed off injured clients and frustrated legal professionals. Settlements that are all over the map, because of these bad contracts, also put everyone in the industry under a microscope.

So what do we do to fix this?

First, know your funding source!

Who are the owners? Are they a private equity firm? Are they knowledgable professional who understands their discipline? Are they going above and beyond to care for your client?

Second, know a bad contract!

Is your starting point of negotiations always near 100%? Are they always pushing treatment to a specific location or medical provider? Do they always seem to suggest the same treatment plan? (NOTE: This also goes for In-House Funding and Health Insurance… these can be terrible contracts too.)

There are definitely a lot of other factors that go into testing your medical funding source. But, when you peel back the onion, this is the baseline. This is where you can start your testing to see just how they serve your clients.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.

Feel free to comment below.

As we move into our new post-quarantine world, it is vital that we analyze every aspect of our business and our relationships. And one great place to start is with our companies who help or hurt our overall industry image.

Looking forward to a healthy discussion and being of help to you and your clients!

Bad Drivers Continue to Do Their Thing

April 14, 2020 by cphealth

A lot of us in Personal Injury were interested to see how the Shelter-In-Place orders around Georgia (and Nation) would affect the volume of accidents. Some thought the worst. Others simply were optimistic and praying for the best for their business.

Well, Georgia seems to keeping it as essential business as the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported accidents on it’s major interstates remained the same for the month of March.

According to the report, traffic volume on Georgia 400 and Interstate 285 was down 30-35% for the month of March. Despite the decrease in volume, there were still 330 traffic accidents reported which is about an average month.

What is the culprit for accidents staying the same despite volume being lower?

Super speeders!

The Sandy Spring Police Department said they stopped 52 drivers in March with 21 of them driving in excess of 100 MPH. One driver was even caught going 129 MPH.

In other words, the road may look clear and safe, but bad drivers will always be bad drivers.

Which is good news for all of us in the personal injury field.

Ordering the Right Diagnostic Test for Brain, Nerve and Spine Injuries

April 7, 2020 by cphealth

With all that can be ordered for an injured patient, it can be hard for attorneys and even medical professionals to best determine what diagnostic test will help determine a more reliable treatment plan. This is even more true when it comes to brain injuries, nerve damage and spinal issues.

CP Healthcare prides itself on being your one source to get your injured patients scheduled for their diagnostic exams. Diagnostic imaging is our thing as we’ve owned and operated imaging centers for more than 20 years. Whether it’s reporting, patient care or management, CP Healthcare is your expert in the field.

Our nationwide network speaks for itself as a single-source option to help you streamline your efforts. But, CP is also the leader in providing every option for you when it comes to giving you the test you need to properly diagnose so you can treat your patients. If there is a test you think can help your patient, we can get it scheduled and completed so your patient/client can begin treatment quicker.

We all know the MRI with and without and the CT scans, but what are some of these other tests that CP Healthcare has as options in its centers or network? Here are just a few of importance when it comes to the brain, nerves and spine issues.

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)

DTI is a magnetic resonance imaging technique that enables the measurement of the restricted diffusion of water in tissue in order to produce neural tract images instead of using this data solely for the purpose of assigning contrast or colors to pixels in a cross-sectional image. The advantage in layman’s terms is DTIs makes it possible to estimate the location, orientation, and anisotropy of the brain’s white matter tracts. By doing this, it allows a true view of damage to these areas. It was first offered in 1991 and has gained a lot of popularity among medical professions in the past 10 years. The applications and clinical use in personal injury and traumatic brain injury cases have increased as well in the past five years. A detailed clinical abstract from the National Center of Biotechnical Information on DTI can be found HERE.

NeuroQuant(R)

NeuroQuant is software that analyzes a brain MRI to improve the early detection and treatment of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy. NeuroQuant precisely measures the brain atrophy (shrinkage) by measuring the hippocampus and other brain structures that usually shrink when a patient has certain conditions affecting the brain. NeuroQuant can help your doctor diagnose and follow the progression of certain diseases. NeuroQuant compares an MRI of a patient’s brain to a database, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, of people of the same age, sex and skull size who have healthy brains. This has been a game-changer when it comes to traumatic brain injury cases as there are more documented comparables from athletes and others who have declined in their mental capacity over time due to initial concussions. The database will only continue to improve helping make this a viable option in personal injury diagnosis and treatment.

Vertebral Motion Analysis (VMA)

VMA is a full-motion X-Ray that allows medical professionals to pinpoint the areas of damage and pain in patients. The VMA, unlike a common x-ray, takes hundreds of x-ray type pictures of your spine while you move to create a video. VMA provides more accurate motion measurements to help diagnose your unique condition and gives you an analysis of the spine in real-time. Studies have proven the VMA is 30% more reliable than traditional X-Rays.

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a noninvasive test that records electrical patterns in your brain. The test is used to help diagnose conditions such as seizures, epilepsy, head injuries, dizziness, headaches, brain tumors, and sleeping problems. It can also be used to confirm brain death. A cost-effective way to help diagnose and treat in personal injury.

Electromyography (EMG)

Electromyography (EMG) is a diagnostic procedure that evaluates the health condition of muscles and the nerve cells that control them. These nerve cells are known as motor neurons. They transmit electrical signals that cause muscles to contract and relax. An EMG translates these signals into graphs or numbers, helping doctors to make a diagnosis. EMG results can help the doctor diagnose muscle disorders, nerve disorders, and disorders affecting the connection between nerves and muscles. A very vital test for some of our personal injury patients for sure.

These of course are but a few of the diagnostic tests CP Healthcare can schedule for you. You can request these exams ONLINE, by CALLING or by EMAIL.

If you have any questions on how more CP can help you and your patients/clients, please let me know directly and I’ll be glad to assist.