If you were hurt at work, three things matter today: tell your employer, get seen, and get it documented. Both UrgentMed clinics see injured workers as walk-ins seven days a week and handle the paperwork with your employer and their insurance carrier so you can concentrate on getting better.
What to do after you are hurt at work
- Report it to your employer. Florida law requires you to report a work injury to your employer promptly — within 30 days — and the sooner the better. Your employer or its carrier authorizes your medical care.
- Come in. Walk in at Davie or Plantation. Tell the front desk it is a work injury and give your employer’s name; we contact them for authorization while you are roomed.
- Bring what you have. A photo ID, your employer’s name and contact, and — if you already have them — the carrier’s name, claim number or adjuster’s contact. None of the last three are required to be seen.
What happens at the visit
- A provider evaluates the injury, with X-ray, lab and EKG on site when needed.
- Treatment starts at the visit: wound care and stitches, splinting, medication, and a referral when a specialist is needed.
- Medications are dispensed in the clinic and braces, splints or crutches are supplied at the visit under your claim — no pharmacy stop.
- The provider completes the DWC-25 and a work-status note — full duty, modified duty with specific restrictions, or off work — and sends them to your employer and the carrier.
- You leave with instructions, a follow-up date, and a copy of your work status.
Follow-up and returning to work
Your care continues at the same clinic from the first visit through maximum medical improvement (MMI). Follow-up visits track recovery and update your work status; restrictions are adjusted as you improve. When you are ready, a return-to-work evaluation clears you for full duty or documents what still needs accommodation. Miss no scheduled visit — gaps in care are the most common reason claims stall.
What you pay
While your claim is authorized, you pay nothing for treatment of the work injury. There is no copay, no deductible and no bill to you — the visit, the X-ray, the medication dispensed in the clinic and the braces or crutches you leave with are all billed to your employer’s workers’ compensation carrier under Florida’s workers’ compensation fee schedule. UrgentMed does not balance-bill you for authorized care.
One exception, and it is set by statute rather than by us. Once you reach overall maximum medical improvement, Florida law obliges the employee to pay a $10 copayment per visit for medical services after that point (Fla. Stat. §440.13(13)(c)); it does not apply to emergency care. The carrier tells us when you have reached MMI, and the copay applies only from then on. If you are asked for it at the front desk, that is why.
When to go to the emergency room instead
- Heavy bleeding, an amputation, or a bone through the skin.
- A head injury with loss of consciousness, confusion or repeated vomiting.
- Chest pain, difficulty breathing, or a fall from height with back or neck pain and numbness.
Where we see you
Both clinics are open seven days a week with X-ray, laboratory and EKG on site — UrgentMed Davie on S University Drive and UrgentMed Plantation on Cleary Boulevard — serving employers and injured workers across Davie, Plantation, Cooper City, Weston, Sunrise, Southwest Ranches and Broward County.