Submitting and Signing Your RateFast Report: Treating and Supervising Physicians

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This post is intended for RateFast users who want to ensure the correct digital signature appears on their report.

So you’ve completed a workers’ compensation report in RateFast. It’s ready to be officially “submitted” or signed. But whose signature is going to appear on the report?

The answer: it depends on who submits the report.

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How to Update Your Credit Card in RateFast

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This post is for RateFast users who want to update their credit card information on RateFast. This article assumes that you already have an account with RateFast. Last updated October 26th, 2016. 

If you get a new credit card or if your old credit card expires, you will need to re-enter your credit card into RateFast.

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How to create PR-4 reports in RateFast

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This post is for RateFast users who want to use the RateFast web application to write a PR-4 report. This article assumes that your patient and their injury have already been created in your RateFast practice account. Last updated August 30th, 2016.

Do you want to use RateFast to write a perfect PR-4 report—complete with an accurate impairment rating? You’ve come to the right article. Here’s what you need to do to write a PR-4 report for your patient and help conclude their work injury claim.

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Gender Discrimination in Workers’ Compensation

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A lawsuit filed in July of 2016 argues that female workers receive fewer benefits than males in the California workers’ compensation system. According to this USA Today article, the lawsuit makes a case that women are systematically prevented from receiving full benefits for two primary reasons:

  1. Some medical conditions, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, are allegedly more common among women.
  2. The consequences of some conditions, such as a mastectomy performed in order to treat breast cancer, are not seen as causing disability.

Although we don’t know the full details of the lawsuit, the news coverage about the case raise some important questions that everybody involved in workers’ compensation should understand.

In this article, we’re going to take a close look at how apportionment, functional loss, and gender can impact an injured worker’s disability rating and benefits.
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How to update your organization address, phone, and other contact information in RateFast

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This article is for RateFast users who want to change the address, phone number, fax number, office locations, and billing information in their RateFast account. Last updated on July 25th, 2023.

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How to Download a RateFast Report in 5 Easy Steps (with images)

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This article is for RateFast users who want to save a completed report from RateFast to their computer. Last updated on July 5th, 2016.

After you finish your RateFast report, you may want to save it to your computer so that you can easily access, print, or fax it. You can quickly access and download a particular report in RateFast by following the steps below.
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What does 0% WPI really mean?  

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Whether you’re a medical provider, an injured worker, a claims adjuster, or an attorney, this article is relevant to you if you’ve encountered a 0% whole person impairment rating in a California PR-4 or QME report.

If you receive a report—or are writing a report—with 0% WPI (whole person impairment), this number should raise some flags.

Why?

Because, when it comes to the AMA Guides and impairment rating, a 0% WPI is a very special number.

If a report claims that a patient has 0% impairment, then it needs to meet some specific requirements. If it doesn’t meet those requirements, then the number is inaccurate—and as we all know, an inaccurate impairment rating can lead to unnecessary delay, litigation, and expense for all stakeholders.

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3 Critical Questions to Ask About your Qualified Medical Exam

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This is article is meant for injured workers’, medical providers, qualified medical examiners (QMEs), insurance adjusters, and other stakeholders in a California workers’ compensation claim.

When a medical condition has reached Maximal Medical Improvement (MMI), the QME (Qualified Medical Examiner) is required to perform an impairment rating exam.

The impairment exam consists of a series of detailed questions and measurements defined by California law and the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides, 5th Edition.

An accurate and correct impairment exam leads to faster settlement and delivery of benefits, whereas an incorrect exam leads to delay, confusion, and or costly litigation.

As a stakeholder in the system, here are three simple questions you should ask in order to determine the accuracy of your orthopedic medical exam.

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