Faster treatment and better care will lead to quicker, safer return to work and lower an employer's costs.

That is what all of us at BWC want to achieve on each and every claim. AND that is why we initially worked with a team of stakeholders representing business, labor, managed care and the medical community to re-engineer how to deliver health care. The result is the Enhanced Care Program.

Program principles

1. Claimants at risk of poorer outcomes should have their care managed by a high-quality physician of record (POR)
2. PORs should establish comprehensive care plans that consider not only a claimant's workplace injury but other physical, social, and behavioral health issues that could impact the claimant's successful return to work.
3. MCOs should support high-quality PORs through coordinating the exchange of information among key parties and removing barriers that prevent the claimant from returning to work.

Find an Enhanced Care Program physician of record.

Enhanced care began as a program on January 1, 2023
The program empowers the POR to treat both allowed conditions in the claim and those injuries the POR believes are causally related to the workplace injury. It also encourages the POR to begin care immediately without fear of nonpayment so long as the POR treats within the boundaries of the Official Disability Guidelines.

The program also separates the medical and legal components of the workers' comp process without affecting any party's due-process rights. For more complex claims, this approach can reduce delays by as much as five weeks - which means claimants will get back to work faster and healthier than before.

Learn more

• I am a claimant - what do I have to do to join?
• I am an employer - how much will the Enhanced Care Program affect me?
• I am a physician - how do I become an enhanced-care POR?
• I am a physician - where do I get current program information?
• I have questions - see answers to some of the most frequently asked