The ALARIS Group, Inc. is proud to offer to our customers various educational workshops. These programs are designed to assist claims adjusters, attorneys and employers with challenging topics. ALARIS can bring in our experts to your facilities to help educate and to keep you abreast in these ever changing fields. And now for your convenience some of these training subjects are available on-line. (See below)

Please contact Nancy Caven at ALARIS if you would like to hear more or to arrange for the seminar that would benefit you and your employees!

Osha Recordability

This video will help you keep your OSHA reporting down to the bare necessities. Learn and understand what OSHA is, and why it was established. Does a Work Comp injury automatically have to go in to the OSHA 300 Log? What is the difference between first aid and medical treatment? If a entry in your OSHA 300 Log turns out to not be work related what can you do about it.

Run Time: 1 hour video
Cost: Free

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Presenter: Allison Hanson from The ALARIS Group, Inc. ®

Getting Back To Work! Transitional Return to Work Programs.

Learn and understand how powerful of a tool transitional return to work can be. Mitigating lost time exposure through return to work has always been an important component of smart work comp claims handling, but in these challenging economic times, it is even more critical. Throughout this educational presentation you will learn how transitional return to work can assist you in mitigating the overall financial, physical and psychological impact on your claims.

Run Time: 1 hour video
Cost: Free

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Presenter: Kathy McNulty and her co-presenter, Allison Hanson from The ALARIS Group, Inc. ®

Chiropractors and Workers' Compensation, What's the Problem?"

Join us and get the answers to your questions regarding chiropractors and workers' compensation.

Learn the history and philosophy behind the chiropractic approach as well as the difference between chiropractic medicine and medical doctors. You will also learn what chiropractic notes should contain, ways to deal with over-treating, and how to better communicate with chiropractors to get what you need. Overall, this presentation will help you to understand the chiropractor’s approach and how you can have a more successful outcome in dealing with a chiropractic worker’s compensation file.

The ALARIS Group is the leading resource for insurance carriers, attorneys and employers striving to maximize the recovery of injured employees – and minimize the financial impact. They offer proven case management skills and a suite of specialized consulting services – with unmatched expertise and geographic coverage.

Run Time: 50 minutes
Cost: Free

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Chiropractors and Workers' Compensation
Presenter: Dr. Marc Gilerovich of The ALARIS Group, Inc. ®

CULTURAL AWARENESS AND SENSITIVITY



In this session, the issues that arise with communicating with immigrants, both linguistically and culturally will be addressed. Specifically, this presentation will answer the following questions: What are some cultural differences between people in the United States and people from other countries? How can I be respectful of other cultures? How can I work with an interpreter efficiently and successfully? How can I become a more culturally competent person so that I can do my job better? This program is designed for anyone that is interested in this topic and possibly faces the challenges of communication and culture.

Run Time: Approximate 1 hour
Cost: $39.95

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Presenter: Amy White The ALARIS Group, Inc. ®

IMMIGRATION, THE LAW, AND WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

Through this presentation, one will learn about who is immigrating to our country (specifically the Twin Cities metro area), how immigration laws affect them and what special challenges are faced with handling immigrants in workers compensation. Also, you will learn about what your role is in working with these immigrants. Definitions of immigrants (undocumented, refugee, asylee, etc.) and distinctions will be explained. In addition, we will look at present immigration law and the role of workers’ compensation with undocumented immigrants as defined by current case law. This program can be modified for different states and regions, if given reasonable notice.

Contact Amy White

Catastrophic injuries and illnesses can be a challenge to manage. Complex medical conditions, the need for lifetime medical care, concerns on how best to manage a claim, these are questions every adjuster asks themselves when handling a serious workers’ compensation injury. The ALARIS Select Life Care Planning products can provide with you insight and options on how best to approach these situations. The ALARIS Select Team brings experience, medical resources and expertise to assist you in everything from setting reserves to cost effectively managing your claim.

There are multiple products available in the ALARIS Select Life Care Plan series that can best meet your needs and facilitate your goals in a timely fashion. This program is intended to answer the questions of the diligent, hardworking adjuster and explains the details of how these products can efficiently, competently and resourcefully work in collaboration with you and your team. The ALARIS Select Products include: Life Care Plans, Medical Cost Projections, Limited Medical Cost Analysis, Medicare Set Asides and Life Care Plan Analysis, which reviews already written Life Care Plans for accuracy and appropriateness of recommendations.

This training session is taught by Linda Woldon

Medicare Set Asides and Workers’ Compensation

The ALARIS Select Team is pleased to be able to offer a program on Medicare Set Aside Allocations. Do you find yourself thinking about what exactly is a Medicare Set Aside? Why do we have to do them? When do they have to be submitted to Medicare? How is it done? The ALARIS Select Team has a Medicare Set-Aside Certified Consultant that can provide a program for you and your team that will explain the guidelines and assist you in becoming more familiar with Medicare and the nuances of the Medicare Set Aside report. The ALARIS Group can also facilitate filing your Medicare Set Aside with a group of attorney’s that are leaders in their field, and have 100% success rate with their filings. This presentation is designed for new and experienced adjusters, claims managers and members of their legal team. Our program incorporates valuable facts for anyone who works in the Workers’ Compensation and Liability Claims arena.

This training session is taught by Linda Woldon

Minnesota Treatment Parameters

While the Minnesota Treatment Parameters have been in existence for over nine years, there is renewed interest in them given the recent escalation of medical costs that companies have experienced. The objective of this training session is to provide claims adjusters with a functional methodology of how the parameters might be applied. The Minnesota Treatment Parameters are a lengthy and complex set of guidelines that are difficult to understand. With this training, a claims adjuster will have a better understanding of the basic premise upon which they were designed leading to a better understanding of how they can be used in daily practice. This program is designed for claims adjusters who have had little or no experience utilizing the parameters.

This training session is taught by Chris Delich

Minnesota Statutory Rehabilitation Services

Statutory Rehabilitation Services in Minnesota are unique and can often perplex those who are not familiar with the workers compensation system in Minnesota. The objective of this training session is to provide claims adjusters with an overview of how the process works, along with a review of the forms utilized and the timeframes mandated. The historical perspective that is important to the proper understanding of this system is reviewed, along with the role and requirements of the Qualified Rehabilitation Consultant. The professional conduct rules for QRC’s are discussed to provide insight into behavior that might otherwise appear to be strange or contentious. This program is designed for claims adjusters who have had little or no experience in dealing with Minnesota Statutory Rehabilitation Services, but also provides an excellent opportunity for more experienced adjusters to have a dialogue on these practices.

This training session is taught by Chris Delich or Randy Bradley

South Dakota Certified Managed Care

South Dakota requires each company writing worker’s compensation insurance in the state to be partnered with a certified case management plan. This program outlines the history of this legislation and describes step by step how to meet the state requirements. In addition, the case management plan’s obligations to the insurance carrier and to the SD Department of Labor are reviewed. This session is designed to assist claims managers, in house nurses and adjusters to understand and utilize certified case management in South Dakota to their advantage. Training sessions are also available to any employer who desires to learn more information on how the certified case management process can assist them with their workers compensation claims.

This training session is taught by Marijo Storment

The HIPAA Experience

In early 2003 a new set of federal regulations that addressed privacy issues for protected medical information went into effect. These new rules not only presented challenges for the health care professionals who had to implement them but also for those accessing health care information. While the workers compensation system is exempt from these regulations, the delivery of health care has changed in response to these regulations. The objective of this training session is to provide the claims adjuster with an overview of patient’s privacy rights along with methods for obtaining information timely and effectively. This program is designed for any staff that regularly interfaces with health care professionals and or medical records departments.

This program is taught by Chris Delich and Marijo Storment

Vocational Issues in Wisconsin

Vocational issues in WI can be very confusing even to the most experienced Adjustor. Jill Allen and her very experienced staff can provide clarity and understanding to this process.

The lingo…. * employability, * restore to pre-injury earning capacity, * suitable employment, * retraining…
The acronyms … * TSA (Transferable Skills Analysis), * LOE (loss of earnings), * JSS (job seeking skills)…
The potential impact on your claims is endless.

What vocational service best meets your claim handling needs? ALARIS can assist you in becoming familiar with the terminology as well as the basic vocational process in Wi.

This program is taught by Beth Slayton

Wisconsin’s Workers’ Compensation Treatment Guidelines 101:
The Complete Survival Guide

Wisconsin has done it again-the Agreed Bill of 2007 includes a very big development! The Wisconsin workers’ compensation
jurisdiction will be implementing treatment guidelines for the first time on November 1st of 2007. Given the guidelines are
new to Wisconsin, there’s a great deal of interest on what they are, how they will effect medical treatment, what impact they will have on claims handling, and the ultimate question of how beneficial they will be in attempting to control medical treatment that may be viewed as unnecessary by insurance carriers or employers. The written guidelines are voluminous in size and can be quite challenging to comprehend. This seminar is designed to breakdown the guidelines in order to provide
a comprehensive overview and understanding of how this implementation in the Wisconsin jurisdiction will impact us as claims adjusters, employers, physicians, and nurses.

Contact: Allison Hanson