With COVID Lingering, IMEs Not Returning to Normal Like Other Sectors, Experts Say

As some business sectors attempt to jump-start a post-COVID world, workers’ comp stakeholders such as independent medical evaluation firms continue to feel the pandemic’s effects as they try to stop the virus from spreading, experts said. And even if COVID becomes a distant memory, the pandemic’s impact on how IMEs are scheduled and performed has probably changed forever, they said Thursday. “We were all trying to figure out what to do and how to act and how to take care of things,” said Donna Bradshaw, vice president of operations for IME services at Genex....