Address specific challenges facing an organization or in a specific case.

We assist you in clarifying your challenges in impairment and disability evaluation and identifying unique solutions. Our consulting projects have included policy development for governmental agencies, studies defining the impact of implementation of the AMA Guides, audits for insurers and health care providers of permanent impairment and independent medical evaluations, and developing policies and procedures for evaluations. We are highly experienced consultants and have demonstrated our unique abilities with clients ranging from governmental agencies to Fortune 100 firms to smaller organizations. We also provide consulting services for specific cases; this may include analyzing case issues, developing cross-examination strategies, or discussing case management approaches. We are the world’s largest repository of impairment evaluation data; this data is very valuable to you in defining impairment issues and physician ratings.

Brigham and Associates, Inc. is the premier resource for research on impairment evaluation using the AMA Guides. We record the results of each review performed and therefore have the nation's largest database of impairment ratings.
 

Consulting Services for Physicians - We are able to provide a unique resource for physicians who are asked to perform impairment assessments, yet prefer not to do AMA Guides ratings. With this service physicians provide us electronically their draft Permanent and Stationary Reports as MS Word documents; on the basis of the information we will prepare the AMA Guides impairment rating, insert this into their reports, and send the reports back for their review. We ask that the physicians complete the  Rating Assessment Physical Examination Reporting Forms, as appropriate, to provide all the information required for the rating. We provide a complimentary teleconference call to orient physicians to what data is required. For physicians and physician groups who request that we perform all of their AMA Guides ratings we are able to provide this service for a low predefined set rate per case. Contact Mindy Brigham (619-299-7377) to learn more about this unique solution to providing ratings.