Treatment Times, Short North, Columbus,
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In my Short North, Columbus, the scientific literature indicates the vast majority of healing will take place during the first three weeks following the traumatic event. In addition, the majority of the injuries seen are limited to muscular injuries and treatment of patients over 90 days, in our experience, often hinders the solving of the legal matters.
This is not to say that all soft tissue injuries need 90 days of care. Care, like the patient’s injuries, are individual. But, if treatment is longer than 90 days, it should be stressed that the clinical necessity for care should be justified even more.
It is the doctors responsibility to prove the care is needed, not the insurance company’s responsibility to prove it’s not needed.
In our experience and opinion, documenting only the patient’s subjective complaints, is insufficient criteria for the continuation of care.
To support the need for continued care, the documentation within the file should show timely re-examinations which demonstrate objective physical examination findings.
In addition, these objective signs would need to be reasonably “weighed” against the clinical potential for further healing.
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