National Program Management
Beacon custom tailors an occupational medical program that reflects the client’s specific needs and goals, and provides consistent, high quality services and consultation to all company sites.

• Assigns each client a service team consisting of a Physician Advisor, an administrative coordinator, and a case manager.
  
• Establishes written medical procedures, exam protocols, forms, and reporting formats.
• Provides centralized direction, record keeping, and medical accounting.
  
• Coordinates with the client’s other vendors of health-related services (e.g., EAP, short and long term disability, workers compensation, personal medical insurance).

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Physician Advisor
Beacon assigns an experienced, board-certified occupational medicine physician to be your company’s personal 24/7 advisor. The doctor gets to know your company, sites, and managers, and can be depended on for sound, informed medical judgment.

• Interacts regularly with corporate and plant management, and makes periodic site visits.
• Provides support for and quality oversight of local medical services in the client’s various locations.
• Communicates with referral specialists, consultants, and employees as needed.
• Advises management on return-to-work, fitness-for-duty, medication, and causation issues.

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Medical Exams
Beacon creates job-focused, cost-effective exam protocols that ensure regulatory compliance and relevant health assessment of your employees.

• Includes regulatory, fitness-for-duty, and medical surveillance exams (e.g., preplacement, DOT, fire brigade, respirator, noise, benzene, asbestos, “hazwoper”).
  
• Conducts annual exams on-site with convenient, work-friendly format.
  
• Provides postexposure exams, treatment, and follow-up.
  
• Offers other health appraisals (e.g., executive, preventive health, cardiac risk) as desired by the client.
  
• Furnishes detailed, timely reports and certifications to employee, employer, and agencies.

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Respirator Fit Testing
Beacon provides expert quantitative respirator fit testing to meet your safety goals and to fulfill regulatory requirements.

• Performed by experienced, trained technicians on state-of-the-art PortaCount equipment.
  
• Can be carried out concurrently with medical testing for maximum ease and efficiency.
  
• Entails daily calibration checks as required by OSHA and careful sanitizing of respirators between test subjects.
  
• Provides clear, detailed individual and aggregate testing reports.

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Provider Network
Beacon credentials, selects, and manages a network of doctors and clinics to provide day-to-day work-related medical care for employees in the client’s various locations.

• Assesses provider’s qualifications and clinic’s suitability for site’s medical needs.
  
• Furnishes provider with client’s written exam protocols.
  
• Provides ongoing quality oversight of medical providers through clinic visits and chart audits.
  
• Supports local providers in emergencies, clinical questions, and return-to-work issues.

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Support for Corporate Management
Beacon combines its medical expertise with understanding of the corporate environment to support the client’s various internal operations.

• Provides expert consultation to legal, labor relations, HR, benefits, and product safety groups.
  
• Recommends revisions of health-related policies/procedures as indicated by changes in regulations or medical standards.
  
• Reviews medical data (lost time, illness/injury, medical service utilization) with insurers and corporate management to target remediation for high loss areas.
  
• Advises on management of health-related benefits (e.g., health insurance, disability insurance, EAP, “sick pay”).

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Support for Plant Management
Beacon provides comprehensive 24/7 support to plant management, ranging from administrative matters such as medical records and exam scheduling to handling emergencies.

• Advises on return-to-work, regulatory compliance, performance, and occupational causation issues.
  
• Works with local providers, employees, and supervisors as needed to resolve medical questions.
  
• Physician Advisor makes regular site visits and plant walk-throughs.
  
• Assists in emergency response planning, develops pre-hospital emergency care protocols, and supports plant ERT and EMT functions.

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Absence/Disability Management
Your Beacon “case manager” and Physician Advisor work together to minimize lost employee work time from both occupational and non-occupational medical problems.

• Communicates with ill/injured employees early and regularly.
  
• Ensures that care for injuries and illnesses is timely, appropriate, and of high quality.
  
• Works with local service providers to minimize “days off” and promote use of temporary restrictions when necessary.
  
• Coordinates medical care among multiple providers, including specialty referrals and independent medical exams (IMEs).
  
• Critically reviews work comp and disability claims.

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International Travel Medicine
Beacon’s travel medicine expertise and services help ensure the safety and health of the client’s international business travelers.

• Provides recommendations on pre-travel immunizations and malaria prophylaxis.
  
• Furnishes location-specific medical advisories to travelers.
  
• Arranges for medical care abroad, and for medical evacuation when necessary.
  
• Supplies convenient travel kits with medications and instructions.

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Wellness/Health Promotion
Recognizing the advantages of a healthy workforce, Beacon offers “wellness” programs to its clients and encourages employees to get involved in their personal health maintenance.

• Provides on-site flu shots, immunizations, health fairs, educational events, and health screenings.
  
• Offers educational brochures and individual prevention counseling during on-site medical exams.
  
• Assesses health risk factors in annual exams and makes written follow-up recommendations.
  
• Maintains client-specific web site with current information on primary care and healthy lifestyle topics.

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Medical Record Management and Archival
Beacon’s comprehensive medical record management system eliminates the hassles of collecting, filing, storing, retrieving, and reproducing medical records for your various sites.

• Provides secure, centralized record control and retention compliant with OSHA regulations.
  
• Enforces strict confidentiality and access procedures in keeping with the law and sound medical practice.
  
• Allows analysis of electronic data for regulatory or other purposes.
  
• Assures record availability/accessibility as needed for future review or production.

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Medical Accounting
Beacon’s medical accounting process controls costs and alleviates the burden of multiple accounts payable.

• Negotiates favorable rates for exams and other medical services.
  
• Receives and carefully reviews all medical service invoices for accuracy and appropriateness.
  
• Pays service invoices promptly (after review and correction as needed), and provides the client a single, detailed monthly invoice.
  
• Manages vendor-related tax procedures (forms W-9, forms 1099).

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