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A qualified medical evaluator (QME) is a physician who evaluates you when there are questions about
what benefits you should receive. This includes your long term medical needs, and your degree of impairment.
A physician must meet educational and licensing requirements to qualify as a QME. They must also pass a
test and participate in ongoing education on the workers' compensation evaluation process. Dr McClurg
has been a qualified medical evaluator for over 10 years and has performed hundreds of evaluations through
the years. He has incorporated objective computerized measurements for an unbiased evaluation. If you are
not represented by an attorney and you don’t agree with the determinations of your treating doctor you may
request a panel QME. In this context, the word panel means a list. A panel QME is a randomly generated
list of three QME physicians issued to you when there is a question about whether or not your injury is
work related, or if there is a medical dispute that hasn't been resolved by the treating physician's report.
Whoever fills out the form to request the panel QME chooses the specialty of the doctors on the panel.
If you have an attorney, you and your claims administrator might agree on a doctor to resolve medical disputes.
This doctor is called an agreed medical evaluator (AME). An AME or a panel QME will be used to resolve medical
disputes in your workers' compensation case. The doctor your attorney and the claims administrator agree on is
called an agreed medical evaluator (AME). A QME is picked from a list of state-certified doctors issued by the
DWC Medical Unit. QME lists are generated randomly. An AME can only be used if you are represented by an attorney.
An AME may be used regardless of the year of injury. An AME physician may be a QME, but does not have to be one.
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