Second Opinion Consultations
High Quality Medical & Surgical Consultations and Second Opinions
FMG receives many phone calls and emails requesting referral for a specific medical or surgical treatment issue.
FMG has identified a number of quality evaluating and treating physicians who are willing in a timely manner to evaluate and in certain cases treat injured workers.
Referral sources will be able to obtain a reasonably rapid evaluation and answer to specific medical and surgical issues and questions. Communication is going to be key to make this work.
A Feinberg Medical Group (FMG) physician will provide the initial AME and/or Consultation (in selected cases imaging studies – i.e., x-ray, CT, MRI, etc.; laboratory tests; electrodiagnosis and a Pain Assessment Battery may be done).
Our office will coordinate and make the referral to the appropriate physician specialist to address the issue or question raised.
FMG will remain the coordinating central focus of the case from a medical and a medical legal perspective. Thus, FMG will deal with workers’ compensation medical and legal issues while the physician specialist consultant will concentrate on the specific medical/surgical issue and question.
The goal will be to provide timely, cost-effective, high quality, independent evaluations and treatment which both provide optimal care to injured workers while insuring quality services within evidenced based medicine and nationally recognized guidelines.
AMA Guides Impairment Rating Evaluations will be available from our office when requested in appropriate cases.
FMG will need a signed pre-authorization for services. Appointments will be set up expeditiously.
It is critically important that FMG is provided all relevant medical records and imaging (radiological) studies so as to avoid repeating studies recently done.