Occ-ABILITY
Occupational Disability Management Solution
What Are Some of the Main Challenges?
Almost all businesses in every province and territory in Canada must register with their respective Workers Compensation Board. Essentially, Boards are provincially-administered, no-fault insurance providers. The employers are the plan sponsors, and they remit premiums to their respective Board based on the number of lives and the corresponding insurable earnings. The Boards provide several benefits and services, including loss–of-earnings/wage-loss benefits, health benefits, claims adjudication, case-management, return-to-work, vocational rehabilitation, health-and-safety programming, etc. While they seek to render accurate adjudicative decisions, and while they facilitate return-to-work, opportunities to optimize these areas exist. The opportunity to appeal claims decisions also exists, especially when there is no established mechanism-of-injury (MOI) and/or when there is no identifiable source-of-injury (SOI). Building and managing a program that focuses on recovery, early-and-safe return-to-work, and premium reduction can be daunting.
What Are Some of Our Solutions?
- Incident reporting.
- Timely claims submissions.
- Claims administration.
- Parallel claims/case management.
- Early-and-safe return-to-work.
- Board decision objections and appeals.
- Overall health-and-safety programming.
What We Do!
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When a workplace incident/accident resulting in injury occurs:
- The employer administers first aid.
- The employer immediately offers suitable modified duties.
- The employer completes the incident/accident-details report.
- The employer provides our information package to the employee.
- We can assist in developing and/or enhancing this initiating process, and in providing our tried-and-tested tools.
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ViAbility accomplishes information gathering and review-and-analysis tasks:
- We receive and review the referral information.
- We gather any missing information.
- We seek clarification on accident details, if required.
- We conduct an interview with the manager/supervisor, if required.
- We conduct an interview with the employee.
- We review and analyze all pertinent information.
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ViAbility accomplishes administrative tasks in a timely manner:
- We complete the Form-7/Worker Report-of-Injury Form, and we request that the Board considers the merits of the claim including any initial concerns.
- We assemble and submit all information to the Board.
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ViAbility accomplishes disability/return-to-work (RTW) case-management activities:
- We review the claim, and we formulate a case/care plan.
- We develop and coordinate a RTW Plan.
- We provide accommodation advisory, implementation, and support.
- We provide RTW meeting facilitation and support.
- We perform and maintain regular follow-ups with the Board.
- We perform ongoing case-management services.
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ViAbility accomplishes objection and appeal submissions when required:
- We comprehensively and forensically review the entire claim/case file.
- We review and submit reconsiderations to the Board.
- We prepare 1st level-of-appeal (Board level); and we prepare 2nd level-of-appeal (Tribunal level).
- We seek cost relief and all cost mitigation opportunities.
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ViAbility enhances key employer programs, if required:
- First aid programming.
- Return-to-work/accommodation programming.
- Health and safety enhancements.
- Musculo-skeletal injury prevention programs.
- We ensure that employee information is kept private and that your organizational data integrity is maintained.
Why Choose Us?
Because of our total absence management value propositions:
- ViAbility focuses on the right solution at the right time.
- ViAbility will work to save time, reduce cost, remain compliant, and mitigate risk.
- ViAbility will work to optimize and maintain a healthy workplace and a healthy workforce.
Explore More Absence Management Solutions
We know that occupational health and absence management programs are complex and full of challenges, issues, risks, and legalities. ViAbility can help your organization to harmonize your leave-of-absence-programs allowing for consistent management and reporting.
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