The workers' compensation medical delivery system is a target of much controversy over its effectiveness. The extensive delays in the delivery of medical benefits because of bureaucratic stagnation, and the massive employee dissatisfaction over the results of industry managed care are a rising chorus of concern.
The Federal government, in an emerging concept, is now looking toward limiting escalation costs and other medical issues, by utilizing a concept that provides reimbursement to medical providers based on outcome success. The system will no longer pay for medical failures or mismanagement. The traditional fee-for-services approach is slowly giving way to newer and innovated approaches for medical provider reimbursement.
Whether the compensation system is either closed panel (employer choice of physician) or open panel (employee choice of physician) the ultimate outcome would determine the level of medical reimbursement. In a nation where there is a premium placed upon getting skilled and talented employees back to work in a full capacity, this concept is gaining popularity.
Paying for medical performance in Workers' Compensation might be just what the doctor ironically ordered so that the disabled population receives appropriate and timely care that so justly deserve.
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