carpel tunnel

What is the name of your state?Florida. I have carpel tunnel. In both hands. The workmans comp people gave me a emg. and now the doctor wants me to see a specialist( my tsh level is 6.5) He wants me to put this on my health ins. which i dont have. Do I have to pay for this if the doctor ordered this?

What is the name of your state?Florida. I have carpel tunnel. In both hands. The workmans comp people gave me a emg. and now the doctor wants me to see a specialist( my tsh level is 6.5) He wants me to put this on my health ins. which i dont have. Do I have to pay for this if the doctor ordered this?

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What does the doctor want you to put on your insurance?
If this is work related and workman's comp is paying for it, you don't use your own insurance.. Or atleast I would'nt think you would have to..

Assuming that the doctor referring you to the specialist is the authorized treating physician, this will be covered by workers comp.

Lisabyday said:

Assuming that the doctor referring you to the specialist is the authorized treating physician, this will be covered by workers comp.

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All physicians seen by injured workers under w/c must be approved by the w/c carrier to be paid by w/c in FL. The poster needs his w/c case manager and/or adjuster to make the appointment for a specialist.

Should the specialist that the poster is being referred to by the primary care physician NOT be on w/c carrier's list of physicians, that appointment will not be paid by w/c and it will not be used by w/c (except for the defense in litigation if it is useful for the defense).

Additionally, when seeing the specialist, you need to find out their office policies on billing for workers compensation.--My background is in workers compensation medical claims, and I believe you may have difficulties supporting that your TSH level is related to your carpal tunnel. Your medical records from the specialist will probably need to support the correlation between the two. It is common for physicians to run those lab tests to pre-determine if there is an underlying medical reason for your carpal tunnel (such as diabetes), sound like the discovery of your TSH is incidental. As the others have recommended, definitely get approval from your workers comp adjustor before having that appointment.

An elevated TSH indicates an underactive thyroid. Actually having an underactive thyroid can cause carpal tunnel. That is probably why the doc did the test. Now, the poster needs to see a specialist to determine if he/she truly has thyroid disease. 6.5 is only slight elevated but it still needs to be investigated. If the doc is referring you to a specialist for your thyroid it wouldn't be work related. You definately need to get this checked. An underactive thyroid is much more serious than carpal tunnel! It can lead to life threatening complications if not treated!