Powerful Cedaron Features Tailored to Workers' Compensation
ImpairmentCare is the standard aid for everyone involved in workers’ compensation – it protects the patient and the physician, and is a powerful tool for disability evaluators, insurance companies, TPAs, and the self-insured.
ImpairmentCare takes the confusion out of the complicated, time-consuming process of calculating impairment ratings and disability benefits by handling all of these computations for you.
ImpairmentCare fulfills all state rules and regulations by including several editions of Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. As an added benefit, the product's built-in features also meet all of the Florida and California guidelines.
ImpairmentCare is a universally accepted means of measuring disability, and it ensures accurate impairment ratings and reports that will help you meet any challenge, legal or otherwise.
ImpairmentCare:
- Let's you enter patient information and measurements easily and accurately
- Figures combinations, and calculates impairment rating automatically
- Generates reports in MS Word® that meet all impairment rules and regulations
Powered by the AMA's Guide
In 1992, Cedaron obtained a license from the American Medical Association to use copyrighted portions of Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairments. This ensures that when using our software, impairment ratings are accurate and fully justifiable. Many other software companies do not have this license.
Guides – Integrated
Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairments is the bible for physicians, insurance adjusters, and others for determining impairment ratings. To meet the needs of every user, ImpairmentCare includes all the chapters of Guides, as well as numerous editions of the full text. Because many states use different editions of Guides, the 4th, 5th, and 6th editions are all included in ImpairmentCare.
Upper and Lower Extremities, and the Spine
These are the most complicated chapters of Guides. ImpairmentCare performs all of the calculations in these areas, and incorporates both the Diagnostic-Related Estimate (DRE) and the Range of Motion (ROM) methods, saving you and your staff an enormous amount of work.
HIPAA Compliance
ImpairmentCare is fully HIPAA compliant. Rely on Cedaron to provide you with software that helps ensure the maximum level of security for your patients.
Combination Tables Made Easy
ImpairmentCare calculates the whole-person rating for you. Never again spend hours looking up tables in Guides in order to calculate this rating by hand.
Reports With Automatic Citations
Generate clean, consistent reports in Microsoft Word® format. For proper reimbursement, ratings must cite the chapters, pages, and table numbers in the areas of Guides they are based on. ImpairmentCare automatically pulls up all of this information and inserts it into the proper areas of the report, freeing you from writing citations, and saving you time.
Instant Help
If you need help, simply click a button, and ImpairmentCare will take you directly to the Guides' chapter that is most relevant to what you are working on. You can view actual pages from Guides, and the text is fully searchable.
Only Cedaron Meets California's Special Needs
When it comes to impairment ratings, the state of California is a special case.
CA Impairment Regulations
All of California’s unique impairment regulations are incorporated into this software including:
- First Report of Occupational Injury (5021)
- PR-2 and PR-2 Chart Note
- PR-4
Mental and behavior impairments, which are calculated differently in California, are also built into ImpairmentCare, and updated regularly for our customers who subscribe to Cedaron’s maintenance service.
No other impairment software program on the market includes all of these features.
Pain
In California, if a patient has injuries and associated pain above certain thresholds, state law allows physicians to add a maximum of 3% additional pain allowance to the total impairment calculation. ImpairmentCare does this calculation automatically with the click of a button. If you enter more than 3%, an alert will be displayed. If a patient has a previous injury, a portion of the 3% additional pain allowance can be applied to that injury or to any current injury.
California Permanent Disability Report
Based on what a physician says about impairment, insurance companies use the California Permanent Disability Report to determine how much money permanently injured workers will receive weekly or for life, depending on the severity of the injuries.
In accordance with California PD guidelines, Cedaron’s software breaks down the information by body part, and in a special order based on occupation, average weekly earnings, age, and other criteria.
ImpairmentCare will soon include tools to meet the requirements imposed by the recent Almarez-Guzman II ruling in California.