Sinopsis
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 other industry experts, all aspects of California workers' compensation are demystified. The series also covers current events related to workers compensation.
Episodios
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Workplace Harassment Pt. III of IV - The Time-Honored Tradition of Corruption feat. Paul Costa and John Lavietes
13/03/2023 Duración: 14minThis is the third episode in our four part series, where Dr. John Alchemy speaks with returning guest, historian Paul Costa and professional copywriter John Lavietes about the subtle dynamics of workplace harassment, how it can be spotted, and what to do about it if it's happening to others, or yourself.Here is a link to Paul's site, and here is a link to John's LinkedIn.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!
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Workplace Harassment Pt. II of IV - The Rotten Path to Power feat. Paul Costa and John Lavietes
06/03/2023 Duración: 16minThis is the second episode in our four part series, where Dr. John Alchemy speaks with returning guest, historian Paul Costa and professional copywriter John Lavietes about the subtle dynamics of workplace harassment, how it can be spotted, and what to do about it if it's happening to others, or yourself.Here is a link to Paul's site, and here is a link to John's LinkedIn.If you're a workers' compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports with you!
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Workplace Harassment Pt I of IV: A Page from Machiavelli's Book feat. Paul Costa and John Lavietes
24/02/2023 Duración: 16minOn this first episode in our four part series, Dr. John Alchemy speaks with returning guest, historian Paul Costa and professional copywriter John Lavietes about the subtle dynamics of workplace harassment, how it can be spotted, and what to do about it if it's happening to others, or yourself. Here is a link to Paul's site, and here is a link to John's LinkedIn.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!
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Medicare Set Asides with Dan Anders Pt. II
17/02/2023 Duración: 14minIn this final episode in our series with Dan Anders, Chief Compliance Officer of Tower MSA, we talk about what MSAs (Medicare Set Asides) are in general, and how they are applied in workers' compensation. Mr. Anders also has his own podcast called Set Aside Some Time where he delves even further into the world of MSAs.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!
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Medicare Set Asides with Dan Anders Pt. I
06/02/2023 Duración: 13minThis week we speak to Dan Anders, Chief Compliance Officer of Tower MSA about what MSAs (Medicare Set Asides) are in general, and how they are applied in workers' compensation. Mr. Anders also has his own podcast called Set Aside Some Time where he delves even further into the world of MSAs.This is part one of a two part series with Dan, so make sure to stay tuned!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!
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Interview with Workers' Comp Applicants' Attorney Jason Wells Pt. II
25/01/2023 Duración: 15minThis episode is part two of a series where we interview California Work Comp Applicant's attorney Jason Wells about his lifetime experience with workers' compensation, and some tips that he'd like to extend to injured workers.Jason expands upon his experience in the field, and ways for stakeholders to look at a work comp claim in order to better understand it.Jason's practice can be found at wellswellslaw.com.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 for you!
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Interview with Workers' Comp Applicants' Attorney Jason Wells Pt. I
12/01/2023 Duración: 14minHappy 2023! The California Work Comp Report is excited to announce that we're starting this year off with a new podcast format! We will be posting shorter podcasts more often, so there will be just as much California Work Comp Report coming at you at a more steady stream!This episode is part of a series where we interview California Work Comp Applicant's attorney Jason Wells about his lifetime experience with workers' compensation, and some tips that he'd like to extend to injured workers.Jason's practice can be found at wellswellslaw.com.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 for you!
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Workers' Compensation Impairment Reports as a Safari
07/12/2022 Duración: 45minWhen working as a conservator of nature, it's important to address the delicate balance that allows us to observe a living thing without detrimentally affecting the way it moves in its environment. This is the way that Dr. John Alchemy invites us to think about workers' compensation data as it lives within the context of the work comp impairment report. Which data needs to be watched closely? What can we learn from it? Where do we need to intervene and rehabilitate data to ensure the health of the report at large?We answer all these questions and more in this month's episode!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 for you!
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Interview with Patent Attorney Tom Haverstock
22/11/2022 Duración: 33minDr. John Alchemy meets with California patent attorney Tom Haverstock to discuss patent law, the process of submitting and receiving a patent, and much more!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 for you!
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Informing Patients About their PR-4 Impairment Reports
01/11/2022 Duración: 31minIn this episode, Dr. John Alchemy elucidates the process of informing workers' comp patients about their impairment ratings, and focuses on how to keep communication clear and open with them through their work comp journey. 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 for you!
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Workers Comp Impairment Ratings 101 Revisited
12/10/2022 Duración: 49minThis month, the California Work Comp Report Team of Dr. John Alchemy, MD and Cory Oleson discuss the fundamentals of workers' compensation PR-4 reports. We discuss the PR-4 report from a provider's perspective, in order to get a more in-depth look at what it takes to do it right the first time, so that you have a better chance of getting your report accepted by the insurance carrier.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 for you!
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The McCoy Monarch Fund with Zach Griebel
06/09/2022 Duración: 21minThis month we interview Hamline University undergrad Zach Griebel, who is a recipient of the McCoy Monarch Fund scholarship. Zach tells us about his experience working with Hamline professors, and how the McCoy Monarch Fund assists Zach's day-to-day life as a student. 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 for you!
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The Gates of Hell Pt. V - Hell and Workers' Compensation
10/08/2022 Duración: 41minWe have arrived at the conclusion of our series on Dante's poem Inferno and Rodin's sculpture The Gates of Hell where we finally explore the topic of how this relates to workers' compensation. Dr. John Alchemy and Cory Oleson explore the metaphor between the injured worker's experience through a claim that is dragging on, and Dante's experience going through hell. It's not all fire and brimstone, however. There could be a light at the end of the tunnel. To find out how, give this episode a listen!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 for you!
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When Zero Means More than Nothing
14/07/2022 Duración: 44minExpanding on the idea of 0% WPI in workers' comp claims from previous episodes, Dr. John Alchemy takes this opportunity to elaborate that 0% WPI doesn't necessarily mean that everything about the injury is 'in the clear'. 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 for you!
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The Gates of Hell Pt. IV - Auguste Rodin Building the Gates of Hell
08/07/2022 Duración: 01h08minPart IV of our podcast series on Dante's Inferno, and Rodin's Gates of Hell. Here we behold the gates in the flesh. In this penultimate episode of our series, we travel with Historian of Italian art and owner of Tuscan Tour Guide, Paul Costa, into the early 20th century to meet Auguste Rodin.We learn about how Rodin interpreted Dante's vision to sculpt his depiction of the Gates of Hell as described by Dante Alighieri. We learn some very interesting facts about the time period, and Rodin's spiritual connection to the author of The Inferno. 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 for you!
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Interview with a Pioneer: William A. Norcross MD
09/06/2022 Duración: 40minThis month we are joined by very special guest, Dr. William Norcross, MD, whose accomplishments include establishing the UCSD PACE Program to help physicians mental health, as well as being the educational mentor of RateFast's own Dr. John Alchemy, MD!We speak with William about the mental health of doctors is a crisis all its own, compounded by the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also discuss ways that you can help your fellow physicians (and other people in general!) and briefly discuss the Ursinus College William A. Norcross MD '70 FundFor 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 for you!
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The Gates of Hell Pt. III - We Have Arrived
25/05/2022 Duración: 01h08minPart III of our podcast on Dante's Inferno, and Rodin's Gates of Hell. Keep your arms, legs, and bifurcated tails in the vehicle at all times. We are going down.Historian of Italian art and owner of Tuscan Tour Guide, Paul Costa, brings us along the path that Dante and his guide Virgil took on their trip through hell.But why Dante? And Rodin, the guy who made The Thinker? What does this have to do with workers' compensation? We will arrive at the answer at the end of our series. To get there, we must go through Inferno itself. 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 for you!
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A Bright Future for Tech with Chris Bunting of Roll Over Easy
04/05/2022 Duración: 38minThis month we are joined by Chris Bunting of Roll Over Easy, a podcast blending today's exciting tech developments with day to day life in beautiful San Francisco. Chris, Dr. John Alchemy, and Cory Oleson, discuss current trends in tech, and the speed at which things develop, in hopes of seeing a brighter tomorrow for technology as it pertains to workers' compensation. This is an exciting episode, so don't miss 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 for you!
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The Gates of Hell Pt. II - Raising Inferno
26/04/2022 Duración: 38minPart II of our trip to hell and back!Historian of Italian art and owner of Tuscan Tour Guide, Paul Costa, brings us into the life and times of Dante Alighieri, his influence and how he saw the world around him. But why Dante? What does this have to do with workers' compensation? We will arrive at the answer at the end of our series. To get there, we must go through Inferno itself. See you in hell.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 for you!
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8 Crucial Points for Great Workers' Comp
12/04/2022 Duración: 58minThey say that about 80% of the job only requires 20% of the work. Matter of fact, doing the job right will help eliminate a lot of the work where bad habits are developed. That's why in this episode, Dr. John Alchemy schools Cory Oleson on the 8 crucial points for great work comp. 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 for you!