Achieve stronger opinion
Save time and money
Improve report quality
Maximise IMEs by adding an FCELite
Accurately assessing an individual’s work capacity is an important part of any case as key decisions are made from the results. In collaboration with our medical experts, we saw an opportunity to enhance the outcome of independent medical examinations with Red Assess Plus.
Traditionally, medical specialists are asked to provide their medical opinion on an individual’s work capacity, however, the required functional testing to provide such an opinion commonly falls outside of their scope and expertise.
Red Assess Plus streamlines the process by providing a functional capacity evaluation and an independent medical examination at once. This combination provides a more accurate and reliable report, saves time and money, and enhances the outcome of your case.
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Our Red Plus service combines an independent medical assessment (IME), performed by a medical expert of your choice (e.g. orthopaedic surgeon) with a customised functional capacity evaluation (FCELite) performed by an occupational therapist.
Your chosen medical expert will use the results from the FCELite as evidence to support their medical opinion on work capacity and daily living activities – questions most commonly asked in personal injury or superannuation claims.
You can combine an FCELite with most specialties; the most common are:
- Orthopaedic Surgeon (Ortho+)
- Psychiatrist (Psych+)
- Neurosurgeon (Neuro+)
- Rehabilitation Physician (Rehab+)
- Occupational Physician (OEP+)
What is an FCELite?
FCELite is a tailored functional capacity
evaluation that involves:
Observing physical and behavioural responses to movement and tasks
Assessing walking, reaching, sitting, pushing, carrying, and so on
Evaluating quality of movement, use of supports, and range of motion
Comparing of pre-injury work history to current participation in their role
Assessing meaningful activities in daily life, leisure, social life, or employment
Simplify the medico-legal process with Red Assess Plus
Reliable Reports
Combining an FCELite with an IME improves the quality, reliability, and accuracy of the opinion.
Reduced Costs
An FCELite only provides the evidence you need, saving you money on a comprehensive evaluation.
Stronger Opinion
An FCELite gives the medical expert real-time evidence - supporting medical opinion for stronger outcomes.
What our clients say
Having the expertise of specialists from a dual perspective is invaluable. Having this service is also a cost-saving and a massive time saver. Having access to an Orthopaedic Surgeon and an Occupational Therapist is weighted more highly than that of an Occupational Physician. I would highly recommend this product.
Ortho+ offered a valuable 2 in 1 one service. It allowed us to get our usual full orthopaedic review while also obtaining a preliminary view from an OT on care and economic loss. It also potentially saves the client valuable time by seeing two experts at the same time. It is also very reasonably priced.
We can determine the prospects of our client being successful in proving a claim for care without having to pay for a full OT review. In addition, it gives us the value of the experts being able to comment on each report where we would usually have to obtain a supplementary report from an orthopaedic surgeon to obtain any comments about an OT report.
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