IDENTITY MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION, INC.
Identity Managed Care Organization, Inc. (IMCO), is a certified Georgia Workers' Compensation Managed Care Organization dedicated to providing the highest quality of care to the injured worker with significant cost savings to clients.
IMCO is staffed with two in-house Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeons serving as Medical Director and Associate Medical Director. IMCO Medical Directors oversee all medical care, surgeries, pharmaceuticals and case management, to ensure that treatment is timely, necessary and appropriate. The result is optimum care, timely return to work and medical cost savings. Our statewide network of physicians and hospitals, as well as our expertly trained certified nurse case managers, produce excellent results. All IMCO nurse case managers are registered nurses who expertly communicate and guide the injured worker through the entire work comp process.
Edward C. Loughlin, Jr. M.D.
Medical Director
Dr. Loughlin is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon who has worked in private practice in Atlanta since 1964. Dr Loughlin completed his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his training as a surgical intern at Emory University and joined the Emory and Grady Program where he completed his orthopaedic residency.
Dr. Loughlin is past chairman of the Fulton-Dekalb Hospital Authority, past chairman of orthopaedics at Piedmont Hospital, past president of the Georgia Orthopaedic Society, past president of the Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic, recipient of the Emory Medical Alumni Association's Distinguished Professional Achievement Award and honored with the Edward C. Loughlin Jr. Radiation Oncology Center established at Grady Hospital in 1992.
In addition to his duties as Medical Director of Identity MCO, Dr Loughlin serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at Emory University's School of Medicine.
Carl D. Fackler, M.D.
Associate Medical Director
Dr. Fackler is a graduate of the University of Iowa and the University of Iowa School of Medicine. He completed his Medical Internship at Boston City Hospital and his General Surgery Residency at Boston University. His Residency in Orthopaedic Surgery was completed at Harvard University, Boston MA.
Dr. Fackler is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is a past chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Piedmont Hospital, has served as President of the Atlanta Orthopaedic Society and the Atlanta Clinical Society. Dr. Fackler is past chairman of the Institutional Review Board of Piedmont Hospital.
He is a member of the Scoliosis Research Society, the Georgia Orthopaedic Society, the Medical Association of Georgia and Phi Beta Kappa. He has served for 16 years as Orthopaedic Consultant to the Atlanta Braves.
In addition to his duties as Associate Medical Director of Identity MCO, Dr Fackler is Co-Chairman of the Tissue Advisory Board, Life Link Foundation.