Traditional methods of impairment rating create the conditions for inherently missing data in workers’ comp reports. The amount of detail required to make a report data set ‘complete’ takes a herculean task that combines experience with technology. This is what RateFast does!
Functional Loss Rating Time and Money Savings
Understanding Confidence in the FLR (Functional Loss Rating) Method
RateFast Functional Loss Rating Pt. II
Dr. John Alchemy speaks about the differences between the traditional four corners rating of workers’ compensation vs the new RateFast Functional Loss Rating (FLR).
RateFast Functional Loss Calculator – Introduction
RateFast offers an alternative, or perhaps an upgrade, to the traditional ‘four corners rating’ style of workers’ comp impairment calculation with our Functional Loss Rating. Dr. John Alchemy explains this RateFast Feature in this episode.
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Understanding the RateFast Abstract
Understanding RateFast from a high level will help users communicate their impairment reports to other stakeholders. Dr. John Alchemy, creator and CEO of RateFast, explains how this knowledge can lead to closing work comp claims quicker than ever before.
Staging Multi Body Part Claims: Sequential impairment Rating
Workers’ comp injuries can (and often do) contain multiple body parts, adding complexity to the claims. Still, the California workers’ comp system is set up to handle such claims. Dr. John Alchemy explains how to handle these types of claims with regards to impairment ratings and reports.
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Future Care: Understanding and Discussing the Roadmap of Future Care
A workers’ compensation claim may not end when the claim is settled. The injured worker may require future care. The detail that the provider gives in the final impairment report regarding future care is essential in how the future care is viewed and approved by the insurance adjuster. Dr. John Alchemy explains how future care can be effectively and clearly written by the physician.
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Data Integrity: Understanding Foundational Clinic Data
Good data integrity means a report that is more likely to stand on its own when scrutinized. What does it mean for your impairment report data to have integrity? Data integrity is a concept we’ve developed at RateFast which represents the quality of the data that was put into the creation of the report, since the outcome of a report is only as good as the data that was provided.
Data integrity is provided with each RateFast report as a means to keep the claim as transparent as possible for stakeholders.
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Apportionment: Understanding the Drivers of Pre-Existing Conditions
Dr. John Alchemy discusses one of the most difficult parts of workers’ compensation impairment ratings: Apportionment. When a workers’ compensation injury involves a pre-existing condition on the injured body system, the physician must calculate apportionment to determine how much functional loss was due to the workplace injury, and how much of it is owed to the pre-existing condition. Dr. Alchemy will outline how to navigate through this particularly tough topic for the best outcome for impairment rating.
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