For Employers, HR, Case Managers & Attorneys

Make sure your injured workers know about us — first.

Same-day or 48-hour evaluation by a Doctor of Physical Therapy. We handle the WC carrier. Lower claim costs, faster return to work, defensible documentation. Workers choose where they go — your job is to make sure they have a real option.

You can recommend. Recommend Forward PT.

In Wisconsin, employers and nurse case managers cannot mandate where an injured worker goes for care. The worker chooses their treating provider.

But you can recommend — and your recommendation matters. When an employee gets hurt and isn't sure where to go, they usually follow the lead of their employer, HR officer, or case manager. That moment of recommendation shapes the entire claim trajectory.

Recommend Forward PT's PT First Work Injury Program as your employees' first stop. Same-day or 48-hour evaluation, conservative care, worksite collaboration on accommodations, and we handle the carrier. The worker still chooses — they just need to hear about us first.

Why this matters for your claim metrics

When an injured worker's first stop is an ER, a surgical specialist, or a 4-6-week-out PT waitlist, the claim does this:

• Costs more — ER visits run $1,000-$5,000+, often unnecessarily
• Drags longer — every week of delayed care extends the claim
• Generates imaging cascades — MRIs, X-rays, scans the worker may not need
• Increases surgical rates — once a worker is in a surgical specialist's office, the recommendation often follows
• Increases re-injury risk — workers cleared subjectively often return before they're physically ready
• Adds chronic complications — extended inactivity drives weight gain, deconditioning, depression — all of which extend claims further

The literature on early PT access in WC is consistent: workers who get into PT in the first 48 hours have shorter claims, lower opioid use, lower surgical rates, and lower total claim cost.

We're built to be that first stop.

What we do for your worker

Same-day or 48-hour eval. Doctor of Physical Therapy. Full hour. Real exam.

Triage like urgent care, with a conservative-care bias. If the injury can be treated conservatively, we start that day. If red flags exist or imaging is genuinely needed, we screen for them and refer fast and appropriately.

Plans built on peer-reviewed research and adjusted to the worker. Not templates.

Whole-person recovery. Aerobic training, strength work, body composition tracking — so workers don't deteriorate during the claim.

Return+ testing for surgical cases. Objective data on strength, function, and capacity before clearance for full duty. Defensible. Repeatable. Hard data instead of subjective handoffs.

Best-in-class work conditioning. Job-specific physical training that prepares the worker for actual work demands before full-duty clearance.

What we do for you

If you're managing claims — as an HR officer, safety officer, case manager, claims adjuster, or attorney — here's what working with Forward PT looks like:

• Same-day or 48-hour eval scheduling. Call us with the worker's name and basic info. We get them on the schedule. Today or tomorrow.
• Lune-generated written reports. Structured, plain-language, organized around what you need to read — not vendor-decided templates designed for other clinics.
• Proactive progress updates. You don't have to chase us for status. We send updates as the case progresses.
• Carrier coordination. We handle the WC billing, documentation, and authorization workflows. You don't have to follow up with us about paperwork.
• Defensible objective data. Return+ testing for return-to-work decisions provides the kind of measurement that holds up in front of carriers, judges, or anyone questioning the clearance.
• FCE reports backed by software we built ourselves. Cleaner, more useful than commercial FCE outputs. Built around what case managers and attorneys actually need.
• Direct line to clinical staff. No phone tree. No "we'll get back to you." Real clinicians, real conversations.

Why Forward PT is built differently

Independent and locally owned. No corporate productivity targets, no system pressure to refer in-network. Decisions are clean.

Doctor-led. Every patient is treated by a Doctor of Physical Therapy. Same clinician across visits.

Built our own clinical software. Lune (our EMR) and our custom FCE platform exist because off-the-shelf systems didn't meet our standards. The investment shows up in cleaner reports, faster turnaround, fewer documentation gaps.

200+ five-star Google reviews. Patients stay through the full course of care and write about it. That track record translates to WC outcomes.

Two locations: Edgerton (102 W Fulton St) and Fitchburg (6250 Nesbitt Rd). Coverage across southern Wisconsin.

Payment shouldn't be a barrier

We accept all major WC carriers. We verify benefits before the first visit. We handle the billing.

When edge cases come up — workers without clear coverage, paperwork still being sorted out, complicated insurance situations — we work with the worker and the carrier to make sure cost doesn't stop the right care from happening fast.

Payment shouldn't be a barrier with work comp. We'll find a way.

Want to set up a preferred-provider relationship?

For employers placing multiple workers per year, or case management firms with consistent volume — we can structure a preferred-provider relationship: dedicated point of contact, agreed communication standards, custom reporting cadence, volume considerations.

Reply to admin@fwdptwi.com or call (608) 561-7733 to set up a 15-minute conversation.