# Independent medical assessments in Vancouver

> IMECore arranges IMEs, FCEs, and file reviews for Vancouver files on the Vancouver Coastal caseload.

Source: https://imecore.com/locations/vancouver

## A Vancouver referral waits on records scattered across clinics

The adjuster sets a date while family-doctor notes, physiotherapy, and imaging sit in different inboxes. Booking first and assembling later leaves the examiner short of the file that answers the question.

- Clinic notes arrive with no source date attached.
- A psychiatric question lands with a physical examiner, or the reverse.

## What IMECore does about it

### Book against a real date

The report date shows from intake.

### The specialty the questions need

Matched to the referral, never assumed.

## How it runs

1. **Send the referral.** Forward the referral, questions, and due date.
2. **We confirm the setting.** In-person or video, confirmed on referral.
3. **Records land on the case.** Notes, imaging, and priors attach with source.
4. **Review and release.** Release waits until every question is answered.

## Questions people ask

### Do you have an office in Vancouver?

No. IMECore leases no examining rooms in Vancouver. In-person visits are arranged through our examiner network and confirmed when you refer, and video assessments run across British Columbia.

### Which assessment types run in Vancouver?

Independent Medical Examination, Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE, called Functional Abilities Evaluation or FAE in Ontario), Medical File Review (paper review), Insurer Examination (IE), Psychological Assessment, Psychiatric Assessment, Neuropsychological Assessment, and Virtual Assessment, matched to the referral questions.

### How do ICBC Enhanced Care, Part 7, and tort files differ here?

Enhanced Care covers most crashes from May 1, 2021 onward and asks what benefits flow; Part 7 and tort still apply to earlier crashes and the litigation-eligible exceptions, where Part 7 asks what benefits flow and tort asks what the collision caused and what it costs. We frame the examiner questions for the track the file is actually on.