QME Course

Registration/Networking with Exhibitors

7:00am-5:30pm

Welcome/Daily Announcements

8:00am
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Jan Henstorf, M.D., President
Lesley Anderson, M.D. - Program Moderator

How Workers' Compensation MPN Physicians are Rated/Selected

8:05am-8:50am
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Moderator: Lesley Anderson, M.D.

The Harbor Health Approach
Kent Spafford, Harbor Health
Presentation

The Coventry Approach
Lisa Anne Bickford, Coventry Health
Presentation

Expert Panel Discussion / Q&A

Priorities of DWC in 2017

8:50am-9:20am
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Improving the Utilization Review System

Drug Formulary

Stepped-up Audit Efforts

Ray Meister, M.D. MPH DWC
George Parisotto Acting Administrative Director DWC
Presentation

Q&A

Using IT in Your Office to Improve Efficiency

9:20am-9:40am
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Leslie Kim, M.D.

New Systems to be Efficient in Workers' Comp Evaluations

Dangers to Patients/Doctors of Using Cloned/Boiler Plate Report Language
Presentation

Q&A

Coffee Break/Networking with Exhibitors/E-Posters

9:40am-10:10am
Exhibit Hall

How to Stay Out of Trouble and Keep Your QME Certification!

10:10am-11:30am
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Moderator: Lesley Anderson, M.D.

10:10am
Tips for Writing Medical-Legal Reports that Constitute Substantial Evidence
Judge Colleen Casey
Presentation

10:30am
How to Determine the Appropriate Level of Medical-Legal Evaluation – Meeting the Complexity Factors of ML103 and ML104
Traci W. Hinden, Esq.
Presentation

10:50am
Non IBR Medical-Legal Disputes
Judge Myrle Petty (WCALJ)
Presentation

Handout

11:10am
Expert Panel Discussion/Q&A

Lunch - Exhibitor-Sponsored Educational Session - TrainerRx

11:30am-12:30pm
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Evidence Based Digital Rehabilitation and Recovery Solutions for Your Patients
Michael Oberlander, M.D. TrainerRx
Presentation

Improving Outcomes - Earlier Return to Work or How & Why Return to Work Affects My Practice

12:30pm-1:10pm
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Mark Melhorn, M.D. - The Hand Center Kansas and University of Kansas, School of Medicine
Presentation

12:55pm
Q&A

Apportioning to Comorbidities – Spine, Upper & Lower Extremities

1:10pm-1:40pm
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Mark Melhorn, M.D.
Presentation

Q&A

Apportionment/Causation

1:40pm-3:00pm
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Moderator: Peter Mandell, M.D.

Evaluating Tough Cases - Learn from the Judge and Expert AMEs/QMEs
Judge Colleen Casey
Presentation

Handout

Handout

Handout

Handout

Steven Isono, M.D.
Presentation

Richard Braun, M.D.
Presentation

Robert Bruckman, M.D.
Presentation

2:50pm
Expert Panel Discussion / Q&A

Coffee Break/Networking with Exhibitors

3:00pm-3:30pm
Exhibit Hall

Current Changes in Workers’ Compensation Affecting Your Practice

3:30pm-5:10pm
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
3:30pm
Utilization Review - How to Survive - or Not!
Lesley Anderson, M.D.
Presentation

3:50pm
Getting To YES with UR/IMR
Steven Feinberg, M.D., MPH
Presentation

Handout

4:10pm
ABCs of the DWC Drug Formulary - How It Works in an Orthopaedic Practice
Lesley Anderson, M.D.
Presentation

4:30pm
OMFS - Physician/Non-physician - 2017 Changes
Suzanne Honor-Vangerov, CPC
Presentation

4:50pm
Discussion/Q&A

Meeting Adjournment - Raffle Drawing

5:10pm
Costa Del Sol Ballroom
Must be present to win.

Exhibitor Educational Session

5:30pm-6:30pm
 
The Keys to Locking Out Lawsuits and Reducing Taxes
Art McOmber, Legally Mine
Salon C

SurgeonMasters Meetup: Experience Our Work-Life Balancing Act
Paul Hiller, SurgeonMasters
Las Palmas