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Medical Cost Management

SFM's occupational medicine expertise helps control wage-replacement costs and rising medical treatment costs, reducing their impact on your premium.

In-house nurses and occupational therapists:

  • Work with injured employees facing long-term treatment
  • Keep treatment and return-to-work plans on track
  • Are highly effective in reducing the cost of expensive workers' comp wage-replacement benefits

In-house occupational medicine physicians:

  • Consult with claims representatives on complex medical issues
  • Review treating doctors' diagnoses and treatment plans
  • Identify injuries not related to work
  • Keep treating doctors current on successful ways to treat occupational injuries
  • Identify inaccurate ratings for disability benefits

Medical bill review:

  • Provides thorough, careful review through multi-level professional bill review systems
  • Includes reviews from first dollar billed
  • Results in substantial reductions in medical billings, thus lowering long-term costs for employers

Provider networks:

  • Help control medical costs at the point of purchase
  • Offer employers quality medical care at discounted rates through a PPO network in partnership with CorVel
  • Manage prescription costs through negotiated pricing and prescription management in partnership with Express Scripts

 

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