nurse case management services

Nurse Case Management Services

Employee injuries and illnesses happen. And when they do, it’s crucial to provide your employees with the health services they need to recover and to create company protocols to avoid the same problems in the future.

IPMG’s comprehensive Nurse Case Management Services offer a multi-disciplinary team to oversee your employees’ current and potential health risks while helping your business tackle even the most complex worker’s compensation claims.

Service Highlights

Workers’ Compensation

IPMG offers medical case management from licensed registered nurses, who utilize evidence-based medicine to improve the quality of care, while saving on costs.

Enhanced Case Management

Our team delivers health management solutions in nutrition, functional fitness, and employee emotional health with physician-led oversight.

Triage Cases

Our Case Management team evaluates services during the triage process.  Whether it’s workers’ compensation or employee benefits, cases are evaluated to determine the need and appropriate level of care.

Total Absence Management

Total Absence Management offers multiple flexible options to meet your specific business needs. Our approach utilizes clinical and claims expertise to manage the absence and return to work of employees.

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Why Nurse Case Management from IPMG?

The IPMG Nurse Case Management division ensures that your employees will return to work in the timeliest manner possible while avoiding unnecessary medical costs.

Each nurse case management team is comprised of a physician, registered nurses (RNS), board-certified case managers, credentialed benefits, and claims specialists. Together, they’re ready to deliver health management solutions in nutrition, functional fitness, and employee emotional health and wellbeing.

With years of experience handling worker’s compensation claims and offering detailed, proactive solutions surrounding employee health, IPMG goes above and beyond traditional nurse case management services.

IPMG Across Industries

IPMG has been serving public entity programs across a diverse range of industries for more than 20 years. We currently service over 400+ public entities in over 50% of counties throughout Illinois. We also work with entities of every size, including municipalities, large healthcare industries, and other commercial programs.

Above all, our primary focus is providing for our clients’ workers’ compensation, employee benefits, leave administration, and claims management needs, regardless of industry or sector.

From The Patients

Meet The Nurse Case Management Team

Kim McMahon Director of Case Management
Joining IPMG’s management team in 2010, Kim brings her 20 years of managed care and insurance industry experience. She has managed organizations that encompass case management, utilization review, networks, quality, training, and accreditation. Formerly, Kim held varied leadership roles in case management and utilization review, at a large national third-party administrator and insurance carrier. Throughout her career, she has worked with a diverse population of clients in multiple business types in the private and non-profit sectors.
Kim GastonClinical Field Service Director
Clinical Field Service Director of Insurance Program Managers Group, Kimberly Gaston, MD, DC, is a safety and wellness advocate dedicated to improving the health, wellbeing, and safety of employees. She is accredited with her medical degree from the University of Health Sciences Antigua School of Medicine, a chiropractic license from Northwestern Health Sciences University, and is certified through the National Wellness Institute as a Corporate Wellness Provider.
Kim BognerDirector of Absence Management
Kim Bognar joined IPMG in 2014 as Senior Benefits Claims Administrator. Kim was promoted to Manager of Absence Management at IPMG in November 2020. She is responsible for managing the daily operations of absence management which includes providing direction, training, instructions, and guidance to the absence management team members. Kim is also instrumental in reporting functions including compiling and analyzing data. She brings over 14 years of short-term disability and absence management experience.

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