Other Locations: Santa Ana, Long Beach, Anaheim, Garden Grove, Orange, Fullerton, Buena Park

Specialty 1: Chiropractic

Specialty 2: QME

Keywords/Search Terms: Independent Medical Examination; IME; QME; chiropractic expert witness; chiropractic standard of care; peer review; medical record review; personal injury; automobile collision; motor vehicle accident; spinal trauma; musculoskeletal injury; injury causation; mechanism of injury; biomechanics; medical necessity; chiropractic treatment; treatment frequency and duration; clinical correlation; permanency; maximum medical improvement; future medical care; apportionment; AMA Guides 5th Edition.

Medical School: Southern California University of Health Sciences

License(s): California

Years in Practice: 35

• 20 years performing IMEs
• 500 IMEs performed
• Deposed/Testified 100 times

IME Training: SEAK

Additional Information

Jeffrey A. Fisher, D.C., Q.M.E., I.M.E., M.U.A.C. is a California chiropractor with more than 35 years of clinical experience specializing in spinal disorders, musculoskeletal injury, trauma, chiropractic treatment, rehabilitation and medical-legal evaluation. Dr. Fisher's medical-legal work combines decades of hands-on clinical practice with extensive experience reviewing personal-injury and chiropractic claims for attorneys, insurance carriers and other interested parties. He has evaluated and treated more than 10,000 patients, performed more than 300,000 chiropractic adjustments, and has been retained as an expert in more than 300 civil matters. A particular focus of Dr. Fisher's work is clinical correlation—determining whether the reported mechanism of injury, expected tissue injury, patient complaints, objective examination findings, diagnostic imaging, diagnosis, treatment, clinical progression and outcome are medically and biomechanically consistent with one another. Rather than relying upon a diagnosis or imaging finding in isolation, Dr. Fisher evaluates the complete clinical record to determine whether the available evidence reasonably substantiates the claimed injury, whether treatment was medically necessary, whether the frequency and duration of care were appropriate, and whether the patient's clinical course was consistent with the diagnosed condition. His areas of medical-legal analysis include injury causation, mechanism of injury, spinal biomechanics, medical necessity, chiropractic standard of care, treatment frequency and duration, maximum medical improvement, permanency, impairment, apportionment, future medical care, rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging, clinical documentation, CPT coding, and reasonable and customary chiropractic billing. His background as a former chiropractic faculty member & continuing-education instructor allows him to explain complicated clinical and biomechanical issues in understandable terms that juries understand.