Could You Reduce Your Workers Comp Costs with Injury Triage?

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Could You Reduce Your Workers Comp Costs with
Injury Triage?
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• Injury triage can significantly reduce the costs
  associated with workers compensation, when dome
  correctly, and can also get injured employees
  back to work again while increasing overall
  workplace satisfaction for all employees. If you
  havent already implemented injury triage in your
  workers compensation program, now could be the
  time to do so
• Just how important is injury triage?
• Having an effective response in place for when an
  employee becomes injured is incredibly important,
  heres what you should do when an injury is
  reported and why

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• Comprehensive documentation of the incident and
  injury
• Mitigating the cost of future programs is made
  possible by accurately documenting the work-based
  injury and can be used as part of a claim
  investigation.
• Effective post-injury medical care can be sought
• If an injury is properly and thoroughly assessed,
  the employee can benefit from immediate and
  appropriate medical care.

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• The injured employee becomes a priority in the
  workers compensation process
• With a properly documented and assessed injured
  employee, you can significantly reduce the need
  for unnecessary litigation and any associated
  costs.
• Send a positive message to all employees
• With an injury triage process in place, employees
  will see that you value them and care that they
  receive the right medical treatment to get them
  back to work as soon as possible.

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• As an employer, how can you implement an injury
  triage program?
• Thanks to advances in technology, telephonic and
  web-based systems enable employers to subscribe
  to an injury triage program at affordable, flat
  rates, and can help save them money in the long
  term when it comes to insurance premiums. Injury
  triage is only ever as effective as its provider
  though, and they must use nurses, nurse
  practitioners or other advanced practice medical
  professionals with strong medical backgrounds,
  while following a consistent decision-making
  algorithm. The injured employee should also be
  able to speak to someone qualified via
  telemedicine if they are not required to be
  immediately transported to a hospital or medical
  center.

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• While getting medical care for your employees
  when theyre injured at work is extremely
  important, oftentimes, they do not require that
  care to be administered at a healthcare facility,
  and once properly assessed, can be tended to on
  site. Naturally, this reduces the cost of medical
  appointments and even more time lost from work,
  and is also much less stressful for everybody
  involved.

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• To conclude
• If youre a small business owner and are
  suffering from the excessive costs of a workers
  compensation program, why not minimize those
  expenses by putting an injury triage system I
  place? This not only works in your favor, but
  ensures that your employees get the best and most
  appropriate medical care if they have the
  misfortune to incur an injury while at work. To
  know more about injury triage programs, talk to
  your existing insurance provider, today.

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