ABIME Certification
Aspiring AMA Guides experts will want to consider getting an ABIME Certification. What is an ABIME Certification? Dr. John Alchemy explains...
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California Work Comp Report
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...
Episodes
20 of 141 episodesFunctional Loss Rating - A Scientific and Mathematical Approach Feat. Bruce Bolon
Hamline University Professor of Physics Bruce Bolon joins Dr. John Alchemy to discuss their collaborative studies on the RateFast Functional...
Identifying Claims at Risk and How the RateFast MMI Tool Helps in Management for Adjusters, Nurse Case Managers, and Doctors
You wouldn't go into the forest without the proper tools, why would you go into a workers' compensation claim without the proper t...
Understanding ADLs in AMA Guides 5th Edition and Their Relevance to Workplace Assessments
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...
Accurate Pricing of Injuries and Impairment Ratings with RateFast
Workers' compensation claims can vary wildly in price, and they are often more expensive than they need to be. Listen to our episode wh...
Adjusting Adjusters on AI Impairment Ratings feat. Chris Hall
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...
AI Continuous Injury Pricing in Work Comp
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...
Applications of AI in Workers' Compensation
Artificial intelligence is coming at us fast, and it has exciting implications in the world of workers' compensation. In fact, it can f...
Ratefast and Impairment Rating Disruption
We are back with the original podcast episode format with Dr. John Alchemy and Cory Oleson, to discuss the RateFast Functional Loss Rating a...
RateFast Functional Loss Rating - Introduction Pt. II
Dr. John Alchemy speaks about the differences between the traditional four corners rating of workers' compensation vs the new RateFast...
RateFast Functional Loss Rating - Introduction
RateFast offers an alternative, or perhaps an upgrade, to the traditional 'four corners rating' style of workers' comp impair...
A New Impairment Rating Method; Sneak Preview of an Upcoming Scientific Paper
In California, the AMA Guides 5th Edition is used to determine impairment rating for workers' compensation. In this video, Dr. John Alc...
Understanding the RateFast Digital Impairment Rating System and the Process of Claims Settlement
Good workers' compensation reports need valid examination data to increase the likelihood of the report being accepted by the insurance...
Evidence-Based Impairment Rating and Claim Settlement
Workers' compensation reports are supposed to be objective, but that's not always the outcome. There are biases, old habits, and &...
Understanding Adjusted Pain Values and MMI
There are many measurements to take in a workers' compensation claim, and many of them are the dimensions of the pain that the injured...
Understanding the Concept of Treatment Burden
Treatment burden is a crucial concept in workers' compensation claims. In this episode Dr. John Alchemy explain how this concept works!...
Understanding the RateFast Abstract
Understanding RateFast from a high level will help users communicate their impairment reports to other stakeholders. Dr. John Alchemy, creat...
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&a...
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 pr...
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 da...