One case. One behavioral health referral made at the right moment. Return to work accelerated by 145 days. That's the number Ascellus published on a recent workers' comp case study, an ankle fracture with surgical repair that would normally track to 225 days ODG.
The injured worker returned to full duty in 80. The intervention that changed the trajectory wasn't clinical. It was a case manager who recognized the psychosocial risk profile, fear of movement, PT non-compliance, elevated anxiety at intake, and made the behavioral health referral before the window for early intervention closed.
That is nurse case management doing what only case management can do. The physician handles the injury. The therapist handles the mind. The case manager sees the whole picture and moves the referral early enough to matter.
Atlas builds its case management model around exactly this kind of pattern recognition. Not everyone needs it. The ones who do can lose five months of indemnity if the referral is late.
When did your program last audit which case management referrals happened too late to change the outcome?
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