Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" The goal of this presentation is several fold. First, to learn the definitional aspects of disability, learn how to evaluate the information provided, and learn how to do a claim review. I need to emphasize that disability is not a medical [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" Pivot for a moment to talk about some writing style suggestions. And after we talk about these, we're gonna go over some specific examples from the materials for this section, which will help drive these points home. All right? So using [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" Jim: Hi, my name is Attorney Jim Mangraviti. I'm here with Attorney Steve Babitsky from SEAK, and we're going to talk briefly today about how physicians can perform disability reviews for insurance companies. Steve, what is the role of the physician [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" Jim: Hi, I'm Jim Mangraviti. I'm with Steve Babitsky. We're both from SEAK, Inc. And we're here today to talk about how to write a medical file review, peer review, however you want to call it. Steve, what is a medical [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" So, you know, as I said previously, I think organization is key, right? And so this is one of the things that you should have open on one of your screens. I have three screens that are hooked up to my [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" Hi everyone. I'm Dr. Julia Kinder. In this section, we are going to discuss the peer-to-peer call. So what is the peer-to-peer call? Let's discuss the basics. It is simply a discussion with a provider about a health benefit that was [...]
Steven Babitsky, Esq. Physicians of all disciplines and ages are increasingly leaving clinical medicine. Their reasons include decreasing revenues, stress, burnout, Covid-19, boredom, lack of career satisfaction, and the adverse impact on their family life. Career Options for Physicians Many of these physicians want to remain active, intellectually challenged, while at the same time be able to earn [...]
By Steven Babitsky Esq. Physicians of almost all specialties are performing independent medical exams. These include anesthesiology, orthopedics, pain medicine, chiropractic, psychiatry, neurology, ophthalmology, PM&R, cardiology, neurosurgery, and internal medicine to name just a few. The reasons these physicians are interested in performing IMEs is that it is interesting, they can do them without any additional overhead, on [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals dealt with Moreno, who was injured in an auto accident. His no-fault benefits were suspended after the IME physician wrote in his report that he was exaggerating his symptoms and did not need additional treatment. Moreno sued the IME physician, alleging (1) fraud, (2) tortious interference with a contract, (3) defamation and libel, [...]
Steven Babitsky, Esq. Physicians of many specialties perform Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs). One of the key issues that these physicians are frequently asked to opine on is causation (e.g. are the claimant’s medical complaints related to an incident/accident at work or from an auto or other kind of accident). The issue of causation can be a difficult one [...]