Getting Quality Medical Care After an Auto Accident Helps Your Case

Our Wichita auto accident lawyers will get you the money you deserve

Serious car accidents in Kansas often result in serious injuries. After your car wreck, it’s important to get quality medical care for your car accident injuries. Restoring your health and physical and mental condition is the main goal of recovering from your injury.   That allows you to get your life back to what it was before the wreck.

We are here to help. Our experienced Wichita auto accident injury lawyers at PISTOTNIK LAW will help you every step of the way. Our attorneys have more than 37 years of experience in Kansas working with people injured in auto accidents. We will assist you in getting quality medical care to get you back on your feet.

Why Should I See a Doctor After My Car Accident?

For your case, you need to know that insurance companies eventually try to figure out the nature and extent of your injuries in order to value your case.  The way they do that is to review your medical records.  They are looking to see what you told the doctor/clinic about how you hurt and what parts of the body were injured.  They are looking to see what was wrong during the examination and what the doctor diagnosed for your injuries.  They are looking at how long your treatment lasted and what was done to treat you. Typically, the more treatment you receive and the longer your treatment lasts, the better the value of your case.  In addition to case value, there are other important reasons to seek treatment for your auto accident injuries, including:

• Your health could be at risk.
• The sooner you get medical care, the more likely your medical condition will improve.
• Failing to get treatment could cause your condition to get worse, possibly where later treatment won’t work.

If there is no documentation of you receiving medical treatment after your car accident, the at-fault driver’s insurance company may try to claim that you were never actually hurt in your crash. That way, they’ll have an excuse for not compensating you for your car accident.  If your case has to go to trial, it is difficult to argue that you were injured when you didn’t even bother to get to a doctor to get the problem checked out.  Not getting treatment makes it appear your injuries were minimal.

Who Will Pay for My Medical Care for My Auto Accident Injury?

Medical care for car accident injuries can be expensive, especially if you need surgery or emergency medical care after your crash. Quickly, your medical expenses could add up to thousands of dollars or even more. That’s why it’s important that you get fairly compensated for your medical expenses after your accident.

In Kansas, your medical bills are submitted to be paid to the insurer who provides Personal Injury Protection (PIP) benefits under the Kansas no fault laws first.  If you own a vehicle, this is normally your own auto insurer, even if your vehicle was not involved in the wreck. If you don’t own a vehicle, the next insurer responsible would be the insurer of the vehicle you were in.  If that vehicle is uninsured, you can get benefits from any insurer who insures any vehicle in your household as long as that vehicle is owned by a relative.  Finally, if none of the above work, you can seek benefits through a State fund known as the Kansas Automobile Assigned Claims Plan. Unfortunately, the PIP benefits could have low coverage limits.  Under Kansas law, they are required to have at least $4500 of coverage for medical expenses.  If the PIP insurer pays out their maximum and exhausts coverage, then you submit the medical bills to your health insurers.  You are still allowed to make a claim for medical bills in your case from others:

• The negligent driver and their insurer
• Your own insurance company if an uninsured driver caused your crash
• Your own insurance company if you’re hurt in a hit-and-run accident
• A car manufacturer if a vehicle defect caused your car accident

Our law firm does everything possible to help you get the compensation you deserve. You can count on us to do everything possible to help maximize your settlement.

What Should I Do If I Have Trouble Getting My Car Accident Medical Bills Paid?

Car accident injury victims have a tough time getting the money they deserve for their medical expenses. That’s because the at-fault driver’s insurance company (which is usually responsible for compensating the injured motorist) often does everything they can to reduce or deny car accident claims, including the amount of the medical bills.  They often review bills to make sure the healthcare provider has billed the correct amount based on “reasonable and customary billing standards”.  This means you may get a medical bill for $1000, but the insurance company says the bill should have been $500, and when they value your claim, they only factor in the $500.  Our injury attorneys can help, but a lawsuit may be needed.  Our attorneys will help you figure out the bills and determine how to get the bills taken care of.

What should you do if your car accident claim has been denied or undervalued? We strongly advise you to take the following steps:

• Do not contact the insurance company or whoever denied or undervalued your auto accident injury claim. Instead, we will deal with them for you.
• Do not respond to any phone calls, emails, or letters from the at-fault driver’s insurance company.
• Contact our law firm as soon as possible to learn more about your legal options.

Insurance adjusters are trained in multiple ways on how to limit case values when dealing with injury victims after a car accident. They often think they can find a way to not pay them the money they need for their accident-related medical expenses.

We know how to handle insurance companies and negotiate with them. If they refuse to cooperate, we will not hesitate to file a car accident lawsuit on your behalf.

Demand Justice After Your Car Accident Injury. Contact Our Wichita Law Firm.

You have enough to worry about after your car accident. Focus on getting better. We can take care of everything else. Make the right call. Contact our law firm and schedule your free case evaluation with a Wichita car accident injury attorney who puts your needs first. Contact Pistotnik law. We’ll handle everything for you.