Primary care for personal injury

Primary care doctors, family medicine practices and nurse practitioners are where many injured people start, especially when the accident did not seem serious at first. The first visit establishes the complaint, documents the injury close to the date of the accident, orders imaging and refers to specialists.

That early record matters. A gap between the accident and the first documented visit is one of the most common arguments made against a claim. Not every primary care office works on liens or is used to attorney requests for records; the listings that have told us they accept liens say so.