RateFast Podcast: Workers’ Compensation Impairment Reports as a Safari

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When working as a conservator of nature, it’s important to address the delicate balance that allows us to observe a living thing without detrimentally affecting the way it moves in its environment.

This is the way that Dr. John Alchemy invites us to think about workers’ compensation data as it lives within the context of the work comp impairment report. Which data needs to be watched closely? What can we learn from it? Where do we need to intervene and rehabilitate data to ensure the health of the report at large?

We answer all these questions and more in this month’s episode!

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Informing Patients About their PR-4 Impairment Reports

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In this episode, Dr. John Alchemy elucidates the process of informing workers’ comp patients about their impairment ratings, and focuses on how to keep communication clear and open with them through their work comp journey.

If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports for you!

Work Comp Win: RateFast Receives a Patent!

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Every day, people come up with quite useful ideas. Some of the ideas are genius. The problem is that nobody will ever know that the idea is genius if they never see it!

And simply because one has a great idea, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the idea is eligible for a patent.

To go along with the benefits of having the government recognize the fruits of your labor, there’s a certain… je ne sais quoi about having an official patent for a product that you’ve made. Suffice to say, RateFast is quite pleased that we have patented our product!
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RateFast Podcast: The McCoy Monarch Fund with Zach Griebel

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This month we interview Hamline University undergrad Zach Griebel, who is a recipient of the McCoy Monarch Fund scholarship.

Zach tells us about his experience working with Hamline professors, and how the McCoy Monarch Fund assists Zach’s day-to-day life as a student.

If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports for you!

 

RateFast Podcast: The Gates of Hell Pt. V – Hell and Workers’ Compensation

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We have arrived at the conclusion of our series on Dante’s poem Inferno and Rodin’s sculpture The Gates of Hell where we finally explore the topic of how this relates to workers’ compensation.

Dr. John Alchemy and Cory Oleson explore the metaphor between the injured worker’s experience through a claim that is dragging on, and Dante’s experience going through hell.

It’s not all fire and brimstone, however. There could be a light at the end of the tunnel. To find out how, give this episode a listen!

If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports for you!


 

Workers’ Compensation Hell: Getting Through to the Other Side

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This post is based on a five-part podcast series that we did with art historian Paul Costa covering the topic Dante Alighieri, his seminal work Inferno, 1800s French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and his famous piece The Gates of Hell. We encourage you to check it out! 

Injured workers who have spent enough time stuck in the workers’ compensation system very well may refer to their experience with the process as hell. 

We’re referring to claims that have dragged on for 6 – 10 months and beyond. The harrowing experience of being stuck in the claim can be equal to, and sometimes worse, than the workplace injury itself.

Here we examine just how these work comp claims can be like hell, specifically from the perspective of Dante’s work, Inferno.

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RateFast Podcast: When Zero Means More than Nothing

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Expanding on the idea of 0% WPI in workers’ comp claims from previous episodes, Dr. John Alchemy takes this opportunity to elaborate that 0% WPI doesn’t necessarily mean that everything about the injury is ‘in the clear’.

If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports for you!