Virtual Event  - May 31, 2023, at 1:00 pm ET

Participate in this exclusive virtual gathering where your inquiries regarding impairment and independent medical evaluations are addressed. This session has been tailored specifically to meet your needs.

With so many registrants, we have changed from a meeting to a webinar.

Based on the request of registrants, we will answer each of the following questions. You may submit additional questions during the webinar.

• Practice Development
  • What qualifications are mandatory for performing IME?
  • What is the best way to maximize capturing potential IME referrals?
  • How do I market to do more IMEs for spinal impairments?
  • How can I find IME companies to do IMEs?
  • What are the differences between doing an impairment evaluation for attorneys versus an IME?
• Training
  • Do I need the training to use the Guides and perform independent medical evaluations?
  • How do I decide what course is best for me?
  • Some of the courses appear expensive to me. For example, one organization has a two-day course, which costs $695 a day, which is $1390. How do I justify that?
  • Can you briefly share what is unique about the learning experiences at eMedicoLegal?
• Certification
  • Must I obtain credentials to perform IME?
  • Is the CIR credential equivalent to that of the IME/QME?
  • What certifications are there?
• Practice Management
  • How does one control the conversations with overly talkative patients to get the salient points required of the medicolegal report?
  • Can you include a discussion of whether you must do an exam on a patient if physical examination data (e.g., motion findings) are unnecessary?
  • Is it a good idea to provide references to support one's opinions in a report if not asked to do so? I worry the opposing attorney will grill me on the stand concerning some obscure data in the article that I did not memorize.
  • How long must I keep copies of my IME/IRE reports?
• Technology
  • How can we make the documentation from the virtual exam (without the physical examination) more objective?
  • Can all Zoom depositions be saved?
  • How can I incorporate chatGPT?
  • How do I use chatGPT in my reports? Prompt questions?
  • How can I use technology to improve the quality and efficiency of my evaluations?
• AMA Guides
  • Where do I find a free or inexpensive copy of the current guidelines?
  • What is the purpose of AMA Guides Digital? Do I need to subscribe?
  • What changes are to come in the AMA Guides?
  • How do you rate COVID-related impairment?
  • How do you apportion spinal impairment when the history references prior problems though details and records are unavailable?
  • With the Fourth Edition, in using the Range of Motion Model to calculate the impairment for the knee, ankle, or hip, are the various impairments for flexion, extension, inversion, abduction, etc., added or combined to get the final impairment?
  • With the Fifth Edition, how do I know if I should use "lower extremity" AND "foot" values when calculating a rating for a sensory deficit of a foot/ankle?
  • With the Fifth Edition, what circumstances would allow combining lower extremity impairments even when the cross-usage chart indicates that those impairments should NOT be combined?
  • With the Sixth Edition, what is your opinion about the changes compared to the Fifth Edition?
  • With the Sixth Edition, How is the AAOS lower extremity questionnaire scored and translated to the functional history adjustment?
• Referral source questions
  • We are an Administrative Agent to a large panel of physicians and currently have a large client that requires Sixth Edition ratings. Can you furnish us with a listing of physicians?
  • How can I word questions to ask an IME physician to ensure the most detailed response?

Join us to get these queries and more answered.