Don’t Search ACS for Doctors Who Specialize in DOL Federal Workers Comp According to Federal Guidelines

Time after time, we hear injured federal employees complain that they were told to search ACS to find an doctor near them after they were hurt on the job. ACS FRUSTRATES EVERYONE. It’s frustrating for a couple of reasons.

1. 1. Searching Google for “ACS” brings up at least a dozen search results that have nothing to do with federal workers comp. I just did that and here’s what I found on the first 2 pages of Google:
      • A financial lender (not OWCP)
      • American Chemical Society (not OWCP)
      • The Census (not OWCP)
      • American Cancer Society (not OWCP)
      • American College of Surgeons (not OWCP)
      • Hearing Protection Devices (not OWCP)
      • An Athletic Website (not OWCP)
      • An Education Site (not OWCP)
      • American Constitution Society (not OWCP)
      • An IT Company (not OWCP)
      • Hubble Telescope (not OWCP)
      • The FAA (not OWCP)

Searching ACS resulted in exactly ZERO search results from a site listing FIC Trained Federal Work Injury Doctors.

1. If you’re able to successfully search for ACS, you have to select from 3 programs, of which nearly nobody knows which to select. If they get past this section, they have to select a series of boxes, some of which require the user to have some healthcare knowledge. And IF they get past all of this, the list of doctors is usually very long, and when you call those doctors, MOST OF THEM DON’T ACCEPT OWCP.

Federal Employees constantly complain that searching ACS results in multiple doctors saying they don’t accept OWCP

We’re trying to make it easier for injured federal employees to find good, trained, willing, qualified doctors who specialize in DOL federal workers comp according to federal guidelines. We travel all over the country educating federal employees on their rights and responsibilities in the event they are injured on the job. The trouble we find in many areas is when people in leadership positions know about these willing and qualified doctors who specialize in DOL federal workers comp according to federal guidelines in their areas, but they STILL TELL PEOPLE TO SEARCH ACS.