Q: today i got a QME and doc wants to get me more help.
today i got a QME and the doc stated hes going to request my partial perm off and request i got more help and see more specialist. what does this mean as fart as my compensation goes, i was already evaluated from the surgeon and recieving my 250 a week settlement checks wiyth an 11% joke of a rating. this has already destroyed y financial situation. will this take me back to temporary benefits until i get the reccomended help? will i go back to weekly benefits that i was getting before the surgeons rating?
A: FIRST you must have the QME report IN HAND. Many many times a worker hears something from the QME doctor, then the report comes out and what is in writing is completely different. AFTER the report is generated, THEN the Adjuster (insurance company) has a choice: either follow the QME recommendations, or refuse the QME recommendations and stand by the Treating Physician findings and proceed to trial, asking the judge to make an order following the Treating Physician report. YOU DESPARATELY, SO DESPARATELY REQUIRE AN ATTORNEY. If you had an attorney get you to a REAL treating physician instead of the one hand-picked by the insurer, you would still be in treatment and not released with 11%. If the adjuster agrees to let you follow the QME suggestions and you go back to that "Insurance-whore" treating physician for the extra treatment, he will just release you as 'cured' again. YOU DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH SKILLS TO GO THROUGH THE INSURER'S MPN AND SELECT A REAL TREATING DOCTOR. get an experience workers comp specialist attorney THIS WEEK (not a 'tv' lawyer where a secretary/clerk practices law without a license, a firm where the attorney does the actual client contact and the work), and get ready for trial if the event the adjuster dismisses the QME report or elect a NEW Primary Treating PHysician from the MPN to finish some real treatment.
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