{"id":1392,"date":"2016-02-10T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2016-02-10T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:05:14","slug":"what-happens-when-your-fce-is-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2016\/02\/articles\/claims\/what-happens-when-your-fce-is-invalid\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when your FCE is invalid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FCE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An FCE is a Functional Capacity Evaluation that takes about 2-3 hours at a physical therapist\u2019s office selected by the adjuster to help the treating doctor determine whether the injured worker should have permanent work restrictions.\u00a0 More and more treating physicians are requesting that they be done before the doctor gives permanent work restrictions.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, some doctors don\u2019t understand (or don\u2019t want to understand) that they have the final authority as treating doctor to agree or disagree with the FCE findings.<\/p>\n

If the FCE comes back invalid, most doctors feel compelled to return the injured worker to full duty work even though it is obvious that the injured worker is incapable of\u00a0doing full duty work.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been told by one facility that does many FCE\u2019s that almost a third of its evaluations are invalid, because the injured worker did not pass 70% of the validity criteria necessary to make the test valid. \u00a0\u00a0The validity criteria are supposedly a measure of whether a person is giving a legitimate effort to do the tasks asked by the FCE examiner.\u00a0 For example, if the injured worker does not show an increase in blood pressure but reports that it is too difficult to\u00a0 lift a certain weight, the test may be regarded as invalid.\u00a0 While these FCE examiners swear by their validity criteria, there are legitimate reasons why a person may have invalid results.<\/p>\n

Claimants\u2019 attorneys compare what facilities routinely showed invalid FCE evaluations.\u00a0 Repeat FCE\u2019s done at other reputable facilities often show valid efforts.\u00a0 Of course, it takes time and money to schedule a repeat FCE that should then be sent to the treating physician for realistic permanent work restrictions.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the adjuster has stopped compensation checks based on the prior full duty work release, and an appeal must be filed.<\/p>\n

If you have an invalid FCE, the sooner you have your attorney file an appeal and schedule a repeat FCE at a different facility, the faster you compensation checks can be restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An FCE is a Functional Capacity Evaluation that takes about 2-3 hours at a physical therapist\u2019s office selected by the adjuster to help the treating doctor determine whether the injured worker should have permanent work restrictions.\u00a0 More and more treating physicians are requesting that they be done before the doctor gives permanent work restrictions.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, … Continue reading What happens when your FCE is invalid?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,18,85,76,63],"tags":[557,556,544],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits","category-claims","category-functional-capacity-evaluations","category-permanent-work-restrictions","category-temporary-total-disability-benefits","tag-fce-reports","tag-function-capacticy-evaluations","tag-nevada-workers-compensation-law"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}