Car Accident Doctor for North Broward: Same-Day Exam, 30 Years in Practice

Car Accident Doctors Group is a Broward County accident-injury practice run by Dr. Carol McNamara-Krauss, DC, from a single office at 3320 N Federal Hwy #107 in Lighthouse Point, between Copans Road and Sample Road on US-1. The office sits in the northeast corner of the county, on the Palm Beach line, which puts it within twenty minutes of Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Hillsboro Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fort Lauderdale, Coconut Creek and Coral Springs.

Broward drivers come to us for four things, in this order: The Same-Day Evaluation. 1. Call or send the form, any hour. 2. Examination with Dr. McNamara-Krauss. 3. Treatment starts the same visit. 4. Records that hold up. Janelle Deal, our Attorney-Patient Case Coordinator, has 30 years in Florida PIP claims and speaks Spanish. Call (754) 342-6479, answered 24/7.

North Broward's crash geography is a grid. I-95 and Florida's Turnpike run north to south, the Sawgrass Expressway wraps the west side, and the east-west arterials, Sample Road, Copans Road, Atlantic Boulevard, Hillsboro Boulevard, Commercial Boulevard and Oakland Park Boulevard, cross them at interchanges that back up twice a day. Those interchanges are where the rear-end chains form. Federal Highway and Dixie Highway carry the local traffic and the shopping-center left turns. A1A and the Intracoastal drawbridges at Hillsboro Inlet, Atlantic Boulevard and Commercial Boulevard add the beach traffic and the drawbridge queues.

The county's emergency rooms nearest our office are Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach, Broward Health Imperial Point and Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, and Broward Health Coral Springs on the west side. Any head injury, loss of consciousness, chest pain, fracture or numbness goes to one of them first. We screen for head injury and concussion and refer them; we do not treat them. For the attorney reader, every case from these cities is filed at the Broward County Courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Our records are kept in a proprietary case documentation system built in consultation with personal injury attorneys: a first-visit exam with orthopedic and neurological testing and range-of-motion measurements documented the same day, a treatment note on every visit, narrative reports on request, and the whole file as one PDF.

Florida is a no-fault state. Personal Injury Protection pays 80% of reasonable medical expenses up to $10,000 if initial treatment begins within 14 days of the crash. Without an emergency medical condition (EMC) determination, the benefit is limited to $2,500. An EMC can only be determined by an MD, DO, PA or APRN, not by a chiropractor; this office does not make EMC determinations and refers patients out for them. Chiropractic care is covered. The statute is section 627.736, Florida Statutes, and the plain-language version is on our 14-day rule page. This is general information, not legal advice. Dr. Carol McNamara-Krauss is a Florida-licensed chiropractic physician (DC), license CH5281.