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.
If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports with you!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions for podcast episodes? Reach out to us anytime at caworkcompreport@rate-fast.com!
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RateFast Podcast: Impairment Rating Literacy Pt. II – Assessing the Skill of the Author
While reading any impairment report, it’s important to be assessing the skill of the author who wrote it. An author can be very experienced, or they can be guessing entirely. In this episode, Dr. John Alchemy shows us some ways to be able to make this assessment ourselves.
Join Dr. John Alchemy in describing Impairment Rating Literacy and its utility in the workers’ compensation system.
If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports with you!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions for podcast episodes? Reach out to us anytime at caworkcompreport@rate-fast.com!
Navigating Change – Accountability and Culture Shift in Healthcare Pt. III
For this final installment in our series, Mr. Phil Walker Esq. and Dr. John Alchemy caps off this series with the type of things that win cases in his experience.
If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports with you!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions for podcast episodes? Reach out to us anytime at caworkcompreport@rate-fast.com!
Navigating Change – Accountability and Culture Shift in Healthcare Pt. II
Power can be misused in every industry, and this does not exclude healthcare. In this episode, Dr. John Alchemy is joined again by Phil Walker, Esq. to discuss these intricacies of the business, and how workers comp stands out.
For more information on this episode, and other helpful tips about workers’ compensation, visit the RateFast Blog.
If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports with you!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions for podcast episodes? Reach out to us anytime at caworkcompreport@rate-fast.com!
RateFast Podcast: Navigating Change – Accountability and Culture Shift in Healthcare Pt. I
We are joined again by returning champion, work comp attorney Phil Walker, to discuss the sensitive topic of workplace abuse in the healthcare setting.
Dr. John Alchemy and Mr. Walker discuss the change of the healthcare industry over the years and how workplace abuse has seeped into the cracks that have developed over time.
If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports with you!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions for podcast episodes? Reach out to us anytime at caworkcompreport@rate-fast.com!
RateFast Podcast: What is an Impairment Rating Pt. IV: Four Corners Rating vs. Almaraz Guzman
For this final episode in our series, we discuss the AMA Guides four-corners rating and compare that to the California Almaraz-Guzman ruling.
This is one of the more complicated topics in California Workers’ Compensation, which is why Dr. John Alchemy is here to clear it up for us!
If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports with you!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions for podcast episodes? Reach out to us anytime at caworkcompreport@rate-fast.com!