Helping You Resolve Claims Faster

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We help self-insured employers resolve their worker’s compensation claims faster, saving millions of dollars each year.

Introduction
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Who We Are

Workers’ Compensation is our Speciality

ASCEND specializes in partnering board-certified occupational medicine physicians with employers to dramatically reduce their workers’ compensation costs. Through proven strategies that consistently save organizations money, ASCEND delivers tangible financial benefits while ensuring optimal care for injured workers.

Founded by an Air Force Veteran who believes that everyone’s job is mission-critical whether they wear a uniform or not, and that collectively, we cannot afford for anyone to sit on the bench, injured workers are viewed and treated as industrial athletes. Together with their employers, ASCEND helps injured workers recover as quickly as possible.



Our Services

What We Offer

  • CLAIM REVIEWS & AUDITS
  • MEDICAL DIRECTORSHIPS
  • PROVIDER TRAINING

For Self-Insured Employers

Claim Reviews & Audits

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Your organization’s hundreds of open work comp claims incur millions of dollars in annual costs. ASCEND offers claim reviews and audits with recommendations to expedite claim resolution. Let us provide you with a practical roadmap for each of your claims, outlining how you can accelerate resolution of the claim, even in the midst of physician and provider shortages. 

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For Self-Insured Employers

Medical Directorships

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ASCEND specializes in partnering board-certified occupational medicine physicians with employers to lower their workers’ compensation costs using proven strategies that have consistently saved organizations money by:

– Recognizing time courses of recovery for injuries and illnesses, closing claims faster. 

– Collaborating with the primary treating provider to explain the nuances of workers’ compensation, aiding them in resolving the claim faster. 

– Partnering with the organization’s claims, nurse case management, and legal teams to enhance worker recovery and resolve claims faster.

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For Self-Insured Employers

Provider Training

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The healthcare industry is currently experiencing a shortage of physicians, particularly those well-versed in the intricate nuances of workers’ compensation.

Often, workers’ compensation cases are entrusted to providers who lack the specialized knowledge required to effectively manage such cases. Workers’ compensation training is virtually non-existent in most U.S. based healthcare training programs.

The lack of specialized knowledge leads to delayed closure of workers’ compensation claims, costing your organization a fortune.  ASCEND offers intensive training on the nuances of workers’ compensation, teaching your providers how to resolve claims quickly and more effectively.

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Our Results

Benefits Of Working With ASCEND

  • Case Study #1
  • Case Study #2
  • Case Study #3

Case Study #1

A worker sustained a low back injury, leading to a severely herniated disc. Surgery was required but there were multiple complications along the recovery journey, leading to claim costs of over $462,000. Claim costs were expected to surpass $700,000 over the worker’s lifetime and a reserve amount of $1 million was set.  Within three weeks of applying our strategies, utilization review overturned their repeated denial, allowing the worker to receive the secondary surgery she needed. With her eventual return to sedentary work, the employer saved approximately $1 million.

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Case Study #2

A worker sustained a knee sprain, an injury typically expected to heal within four to twelve weeks. However, the claim remained unresolved for over one year. Within two months of applying our strategies, the claim was closed, saving the employer approximately $17,870.

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Case Study #3

A worker sustained an ankle sprain, an injury typically expected to heal within six weeks. However, the claim remained unresolved for over six months. Within two months of applying our strategies, the claim was closed, saving the employer approximately $23,401.

 

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Meet Our Founder

  • About
  • Military Service
  • Academic and Professional Achievements
  • Teaching and Recognition

About

ASCEND was founded by Dr. Leslie Cadet.  Dr. Cadet is a board-certified occupational and environmental medicine physician who specializes in empowering employers with effective Workers’ Compensation programs.

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Military Service

Dr. Cadet is an accomplished Air Force Veteran whose work as a Flight Surgeon aided in the successful execution of 1,080 combat missions and 2,000 airlift missions in support of Operations INHERENT RESOLVE and ENDURING FREEDOM.

Her exceptional clinical performance saved the Air Force nearly $2 million in outsourcing fees. In recognition of her outstanding contributions to the aeromedical support of flyers, she was honored as the 2015 Global Strike Command Flight Surgeon of the Year and the Squadron Company Grade Officer of the Year.

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Academic Professional Achievements

After completing her military service, Dr. Cadet transitioned to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she completed her Occupational and Environmental Medicine residency and earned her Master in Public Health degree.

Dr. Cadet has held several significant roles, including serving as the Employee Health Medical Director at Loma Linda University Medical Center which operates six hospitals, a physician practice corporation, remote clinics in the western United States and affiliate organizations around the world. At Loma Linda, she provided occupational health oversight for the University’s 18,000 employees, achieved the highest productivity levels among her peers and generated over $1.3 million in revenue.  Her efforts also resulted in substantial savings in Workers’ Compensation claim costs.

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Teaching and Recognition

Dr. Cadet is also an Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. She has been consecutively recognized as the Teacher of the Year for Loma Linda’s Occupational and Environmental Residency Program from 2021 to present.

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