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Teaching Tool · Mileage Calculator

The reimbursement almost nobody claims.

Every mile you drive to injury-related appointments — the doctor, physical therapy, the pharmacy, the QME exam — is typically reimbursable. Small per trip, real per claim: months of therapy quietly add up to hundreds of dollars that go unclaimed simply because nobody kept a log. Start yours today.

Reviewed August 2026 Educational — rates vary by state and year
24 mi
8

What this teaches: count everything injury-related — treating doctor, PT (often 2–3× weekly), imaging, pharmacy runs, and medical-legal exams. Therapy months are where mileage quietly becomes real money.

6
70¢

What this teaches: most states peg medical mileage to a published rate that adjusts (often matching the IRS figure). Check your state's current rate — California posts it at dir.ca.gov/dwc, Texas at tdi.texas.gov — and set the slider to match.

Illustrative reimbursement
$806
About $134 per month of treatment
Parking and tolls for those visits are often reimbursable too — keep receipts

Submit with your state's mileage form (California uses one; other states accept an itemized log), keep a copy, and expect payment on a schedule once submitted. Unclaimed mileage can usually be claimed retroactively — reconstruct past appointments from your visit records.

The rules, in short

  • What counts: travel to reasonable, injury-related care — treating doctors, therapy, diagnostics, pharmacies, and exams the insurer sends you to. (Trips to exams they schedule are reimbursable essentially everywhere.)
  • What you need: date, destination, purpose, round-trip miles. That's the whole log. Contemporaneous beats reconstructed — but reconstructed beats abandoned.
  • How to claim: submit periodically (monthly is a good rhythm) to the adjuster, on your state's form or an itemized log, and keep copies. Silence after submission is worth a written follow-up; some states add penalties for late reimbursement.

Your printable mileage log

Print this page and the log below rides along — everything else on the page stays out of the way. Keep it in the car; fill it in before you pull out of the parking lot.

Medical Mileage Log — Work Injury Payout

Claim #: ______________  ·  Injured worker: ______________________  ·  Vehicle: ______________

DateDestination / ProviderPurposeRound-trip milesParking / tolls