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Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 40, Implementing Occupational Medicine
Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 40, Implementing Occupational Medicine
Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 40, Implementing Occupational Medicine
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The Textbook of Urgent Care Management is now offering individual chapters for sale. The full book, provides an expert business consulting guide to potential or existing urgent care clinic owners, managers & operators as well as investors. Learn how to more effectively run your immediate care or walk-in center as well as start incorporating urgent care services into your existing primary care practice. The chapters cover valuable information from industry experts on how to start, manage, and even sell your urgent care center.

Chapter 40 includes:

- Workers' Compensation
- Market Assessment
- Internal Assessment
- Scope of Care
- Physical Therapy
- Wellness
- On-Site Services
- What do Employers Want?
- Referrals
- Occupational Medicine and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Department of Transportation Physicals and Other Physicals
- Marketing
- Conclusion
- Key Points
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBookBaby
Release dateMar 15, 2014
ISBN9781940288505
Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 40, Implementing Occupational Medicine

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    CHAPTER 40

    Implementing Occupational Medicine

    Laurel Stoimenoff

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    CHAPTER 40

    Implementing Occupational Medicine

    Laurel Stoimenoff

    THE DECISION TO INTEGRATE occupational medicine (OM) services into the urgent care setting is one that requires planning and preparation. Although care of injuries and the provision of support services such as urinary drug screens (UDSs) seem to be the logical next steps when adding services and new revenue streams, these also come with nuances that the operational, marketing, and clinical teams must be prepared to address. The after-hours and weekend access to urgent care services is attractive to patients and employers alike. Urgent care center operatrors must do their homework to ensure that entering the occupational medicine arena is a strategic and planned activity likely to produce not only new revenue but also positive earnings.

    OM has been a specialty of the American Board of Preventive Medicine since 1979. It can be defined as a specialty field of medicine concerned with the assessment, maintenance, restoration, and improvement of the health of the worker through the application of the principles of preventive medicine, emergency medical care, rehabilitation, and environmental medicine.¹ Although OM is a recognized specialty, many primary-care and urgent care physicians are highly successful in serving employers and the workforce.

    WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

    Workers’ compensation is the insurance coverage required by the US government to provide benefits to employees who become injured or ill on the job. Employer

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