It’s time our publicly funded health care system takes a good look at what all these poor quality IMEs are costing the system when insurers turn away their own customers for medically required treatments.
Increased volume of claims turned down led to increased mediation and the hiring of outside mediators – that cost the taxpayer another $38.2 million over 3 years. Time to look at the causes of these costs – insurer claims handling practices – and not lay it at the feet of the innocent accident victims. http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/reports_en/en13/401en13.pdf