Many patients every year get treated at hospitals across the country, but they have to return within weeks or months for lack of proper follow-up care. Hospitals can actually lose money by providing better care to people who suffer from personal injury needing follow-up care.
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury attorneys believe that patients should receive all of the treatments necessary to correct the problems with their health. Some personal injuries require continuous follow-up care, and those patients should get all of the care they need.
Some patients have to have continuous treatment, and repeated hospital visits can lead to high costs in medical bills. If you don’t have medical insurance, you may worry about getting treatment because you have no way to pay. Our personal injury lawyers have a helpful resource page that can answer questions you may have about getting your medical bills paid and getting the treatment you need.
One of our legal specialties car accident cases frequently, and one type of injury that requires follow-up care is whiplash. Whiplash is a condition that can be defined as a “neck strain.” When it happens, drivers may think they will be alright with some heat treatment. In reality, whiplash can become a more serious spinal cord injury like paralysis (i.e. paraplegia and quadriplegia).
There are some medical providers that are familiar with the problem of readmissions. Park Nicollet Health Services, a hospital and clinic system in Minnesota, spent as much as $750,000 every year on more nurses and more sophisticated software to track heart failure in patients. These moves reduced admissions for such patients with those personal injury conditions to only 1 in 25, down from 1 in 6.
Other hospital systems should take note of what Park Nicollet has done for their patients in Minnesota. Hospital systems should do whatever they can to treat their patients effectively. Patients who suffer from personal injuries like whiplash or other spinal cord injuries like paralysis need continuous care, and hospitals should give their patients what they require.
As personal injury lawyers in San Diego, we deal with a lot of clients that need readmission to hospitals because of lasting personal injuries from events like car accidents. When these clients need future care, we work to make sure these clients get a settlement that helps pay for all present and future medical bills.
Call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or click here for a free consultation with an experienced personal injury attorney after you get into a car accident and find out how we can help you. We speak English and Spanish, and we look forward to providing advice for your case. No fee if no recovery.
About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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