Brigham and Associates, Inc.
Areas of Expertise: Medical Evaluators — IME‑QME
Brigham and Associates, Inc. is dedicated to improving health care, disability and claims systems to help ensure that accurate decisions are made, quality care is delivered and function is the focus. We accomplish this through consultation, speaking, training and writing. Consultation services range from case analysis to system process. We apply best practices, as reflected in evidence-based medicine and current national guidelines.
Our clients include governmental agencies, insurers, claims organizations, attorneys (defense and plaintiff), employers and health care providers. We provide services internationally, assisting clients with complex issues often associated with state and federal workers' compensation programs, Defense Based Act, Longshore and Harbor Workers' Act, automobile casualty and bodily injury claims. We work closely with our clients to understand their needs and develop customized service offerings. Based on two decades of experience and the review of over thirty thousand cases, we have established standards of excellence. We are effective, efficient, thorough and independent. Integrity, innovation and excellence are among our core values.
Company founder Christopher R. Brigham, MD is regarded as one of the nation's leading authorities on impairment and disability management. He is the author of Living Abled & Healthy: A Guide to Injury & Illness Recovery, Senior Contributing Editor of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition, the Editor of the AMA Guides Newsletter and author of several books and over two hundred publications. Medical issues are often complex and require physician discernment, therefore all our analyses are completed by board-certified physicians with extensive experience with the Guides. We improve outcomes and reduce the costs, human and financial, associated with needless disability.
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