Training Resources
Training Resources
“This Claim for Compensation is used anytime patients need to be paid for time away from work related to a work injury”
CA7 – This Claim for Compensation is used anytime patients need to be paid for time away from work related to a work injury (LWOP – Leave Without Pay) or reimbursed for sick or annual time used prior to their claim being accepted by DOL (Leave Buy-Back) or attached to the doctor’s impairment rating report for a Schedule Award. We should let patients know this form exists and tell them what it is for and how they can find it.
To help patients get paid for any legitimate time away from work due to a work injury, give them the following:
Copies of all of their appointments in the officeOWCP medical / therapy visit formFill out a Form CA20 to give to the patient to attach to their CA7’s.Fill out a Form CA17 Duty Status Report for the patient to attach to their CA7’s.Write a brief medical narrative explaining why the patient had to be off work.
When patients fail to submit proper documentation with their CA7 forms, compensation is often denied.
“We should let patients know this form exists and tell them what it is for and how they can find it.”
Federal employees need help from expert, trained, and compliant doctors and staff who understand their unique needs, concerns, and struggles after they’re hurt at work. Work injuries may be inevitable, but losing is not. We have the power to help them. Federal employees make this country go. When they break, we have to fix them.