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The California Work Comp Report is a podcast for California workers' compensation professionals and injured workers. In a series of interviews with Dr. John Alchemy, physicians, QMEs, and ot...
Aspiring AMA Guides experts will want to consider getting an ABIME Certification. What is an ABIME Certification? Dr. John Alchemy explains...
Hamline University Professor of Physics Bruce Bolon joins Dr. John Alchemy to discuss their collaborative studies on the RateFast Functional...
You wouldn't go into the forest without the proper tools, why would you go into a workers' compensation claim without the proper t...
The 34 ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) cover day to day things like brushing one's teeth or getting dressed, but these aren't ne...
Workers' compensation claims can vary wildly in price, and they are often more expensive than they need to be. Listen to our episode wh...
Old habits die hard, but how important are they to cling to when the alternative is freedom from frustration and cost savings? Dr. John Alch...
Nobody likes paying more than they have to... for anything! That's why it's amazing how much time, energy, and indeed money is was...
Artificial intelligence is coming at us fast, and it has exciting implications in the world of workers' compensation. In fact, it can f...
We are back with the original podcast episode format with Dr. John Alchemy and Cory Oleson, to discuss the RateFast Functional Loss Rating a...
Dr. John Alchemy speaks about the differences between the traditional four corners rating of workers' compensation vs the new RateFast...
RateFast offers an alternative, or perhaps an upgrade, to the traditional 'four corners rating' style of workers' comp impair...
In California, the AMA Guides 5th Edition is used to determine impairment rating for workers' compensation. In this video, Dr. John Alc...
Good workers' compensation reports need valid examination data to increase the likelihood of the report being accepted by the insurance...
Workers' compensation reports are supposed to be objective, but that's not always the outcome. There are biases, old habits, and &...
There are many measurements to take in a workers' compensation claim, and many of them are the dimensions of the pain that the injured...
Treatment burden is a crucial concept in workers' compensation claims. In this episode Dr. John Alchemy explain how this concept works!...
Understanding RateFast from a high level will help users communicate their impairment reports to other stakeholders. Dr. John Alchemy, creat...
Workers' comp injuries can (and often do) contain multiple body parts, adding complexity to the claims. Still, the California workers&a...
A workers' compensation claim may not end when the claim is settled. The injured worker may require future care. The detail that the pr...
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 da...
Dr. John Alchemy discusses one of the most difficult parts of workers' compensation impairment ratings: Apportionment. When a workers&a...
Dr. John Alchemy and Professor Bruce Bolon, PhD. of Hamline University, give a presentation on pulmonary function testing as it relates to w...
Dr. John Alchemy explains when it is necessary to use mathematical interpolation is necessary in workers' compensation impairment ratin...
There are countless activities that we do in a day, but a finite number of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) recognized by workers' com...
If you've followed our series up until this point, you should have a good grasp on what we call Impairment Rating Literacy. Now it&apos...
Dr. John Alchemy discusses the big themes of impairment rating and what to look out for when doing impairment reports for workers' comp...
While reading any impairment report, it's important to be assessing the skill of the author who wrote it. An author can be very experie...
Think of Impairment Rating Literacy as the precious substance "Spice" from Frank Herbert's essential science fiction novel, Dune. The o...
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 ca...
Power can be misused in every industry, and this does not exclude healthcare. In this episode, Dr. John Alchemy is joined again by Phil Walk...
We are joined again by returning champion, work comp attorney Phil Walker, to discuss the sensitive topic of workplace abuse in the healthca...
For this final episode in our series, we discuss the AMA Guides four-corners rating and compare that to the California Almaraz-Guzman ruling...
Your patient may need diagnostic testing from a specialist. In this installment of our series, Dr. John Alchemy discusses when diagnostic te...
Dr. John Alchemy is back to tell us about the examination portion of a workers' comp impairment rating, and provide us with some useful...
Today we embark on a new series, where Dr. John Alchemy explains the nuances and best practices of taking measurements for impairment report...
In this final episode in our series on head injuries in work comp, Dr. John Alchemy covers post traumatic headaches, how to assess them, and...
This is the penultimate episode in our series on the AMA Guides 5th edition chapters covering head injuries, in our quest to help doctors un...
Today we have a two-part episode to continue our series on head injuries, covering AMA Guides chapter 12: Vision Loss and chapter 13: Memory...
We continue our series on head injuries in workers' compensation, where we cover chapter 11 of the AMA Guides 5th edition, which outlin...
This is episode one in our series regarding rating head injuries in workers' compensation. Dr. John Alchemy tells us a little bit about...
This week we give a rundown of the ways that RateFast Express can be helpful to the workload of workers' comp Nurse Case Managers. We d...
Today we continue our series of the best ways for workers' compensation healthcare providers to take rateable histories on different bo...
Today we embark on a series of the best ways for workers' compensation healthcare providers to take rateable histories on different bod...
We've outdone ourselves again with the RateFast Flash Rating! Now RateFast users have access to the the fastest impairment reports (and...
We'll tell you this, if workers comp physicians loved writing impairment reports, there would be a lot less problems in the California...
We're back with part II of our series in which Dr. Alchemy discusses the politics of workers' compensation. For more information o...
When referring to impairment rating between stakeholders, the word "politics" comes to mind. This week we discuss with Dr. John Alchemy why...
Dr. John Alchemy gives some quick clips about the basics of California work comp terms that apply to some degree in all states. These explan...
We continue our dive into the Hamline STEM Start program from Hamline University for high school students entering the world of STEM, by int...
This week we're back with Dr. John Alchemy to wrap up the first part of our discussion on the Hamline STEM Start program at Hamline Uni...