I am very confused about a change in pain clinics while on workers comp. I was going to a pain clinic for 2 yrs. and I had a woman that was helping me while at this clinic that was hired at this place to help workers comp. patients with decisions and other questions we may have during treatments. She was one to help me get to this new pain clinic I am in now as there is so much red tape to go through in order for workers comp. to continue to pay for you to go to PM if you choose to go elsewhere for treatment. I am not happy at this new clinic I am going to that I have been at for 3 months now.
I would like to know what I would need to do now in order to go to another pain clinic instead of the one that I am at now. I no longer have this woman that helped me to get into this one I am at now. Who do I call to get approved for another place to make sure WC pays for it etc? Does anyone know where I go from here? Any help is appreciated. I have no idea where to start.
with your regular Doc maybe......you dont have a lawyer right?call your adjuster and ask...
Maybe call the helpful WC gal that previously worked with you, and she can tell you what to do, or how to go about it
Good Luck, Lilly
I wish I could Lilly but I wanted to go to a clinic in Boston and Wc comp. denied it and while I was choosing another one and getting approval from the workers comp. adjuster she was also talking the adjuster into getting me into the Boston one that was denied and when she was to the point of getting me in there I told her I no longer wanted to go there because they were rude and said because of the money the doctor did not want to see me so she was very upset of all the time and effert she was putting into it that I was unaware of ( which I cannot blame her) that I never heard from her again after I left her a voice mail of where I was going to be going.
Had I known she was getting me into the first clinic that was denied I would of been more than happy to have gone there instead. That was my first choice. I will do as Jayne said and speak to my primary care doctor and then call my adjuster to see if I can go elsewhere as this doctor does not seem to know what he is doing. I have told him 3 times that Neurontin did not work for me and then I go to the pharmacy and there is a prescription sitting there waiting for me that he prescribed. I told the pharmacy that I am denying it. I have not seen him yet to mention to him about this mistake that he keeps doing. There is also other reasons besides this. He just seems to have things go in one ear and out the other.
The first visit I saw him he was looking over my meds and the first thing out of his mouth was that he wanted me to stop taking narcotics. That I should not be taking percocets. Now this is a Pain clinic doctor??? He had no idea anything about my history of my injury at this point. He will not even make changes to my meds. that are not working. He keeps giving me injections for arthritis when he thinks I have RSD. Things just do not add up.