Insurance Workshop for Healthcare Providers and Staff

This workshop provides up-to-date information and solutions on effectively managing your personal injury cases, the process, auto insurers, and attorneys.

Led by Award-Winning attorneys, Richard Adler, Steven Angles, Melissa Carter, Arthur Leritz, and Elisabeth Ruff.

Would you like to:

• Understand the big picture and unwritten rules of insurance and personal injury law?
• Create greater efficiencies and effectiveness in billing, charting, and collecting?
• Successfully problem solve billing and payment disputes with insurers, patients, and attorneys?
• Decrease your accounts receivable and increase your accounts payable?
• Effectively respond to insurers and attorneys trying to reduce or compromise your bill?

Who should attend?

• Healthcare providers (chiropractor, massage therapist, naturopath, physical therapist, etc.) interested in effectively and successfully handling traumatic injury claims.
• Team members responsible for patient billing, communication with insurers, attorneys, and patients.
• New and experienced staff members seeking the cutting edge tools to effectively manage personal injury claims.

Workshop Topics

• Insurance Coverage: Learn about all the motor vehicle insurance and policies available to satisfy your bills, including Personal Injury Protection (PIP), Liability, Uninsured, and Underinsured Motorist Coverage
• Treatment Billing: Who to bill? When to bill? Who has to pay? When do they have to pay?
• New Developments: Insurance law updates that impact your practice; understanding the “Insurance Fair Conduct Act” (IFCA)
• Liens: Learn how to use them and how to handle insurers and attorneys that challenge them
• Expert Witness Fees: Record requests, meetings, reports, prep time for testifying. How much? Who pays? When?
• IME/ICE/Peer Reviews: How to effectively handle and respond to these “treatment killers”
• Responding: To insurers, attorneys, and patients refusing to pay or trying to reduce your bills
• Cutting Edge: Insurance claim practice
• Documentation: Apportioning pre-existing condition and new trauma
• Attorneys: Effective handling of difficult attorneys
• The Latest Court Cases: How will they impact your patients and your practice? Including Schiff v. Liberty Mutual

Additional Details:

• 6 CE Credit Hours: Certificates provided at the conclusion of the workshop.
• Admission: Free museum admission is included with your registration.
• Meals: Catering will be provided by McCormick & Schmick, including a light breakfast, lunch, and afternoon energy boost.
• Parking: Complimentary parking is available. Please enter the Seattle/Tukwila Museum through the West Entrance, located adjacent to the runway. Click here for more details.
• Location: The workshop will be held on the 2nd floor in the View Lounge.
• Schedule: Registration opens at 9:00 a.m. Instruction begins promptly at 10:00 a.m. and concludes at 4:00 p.m.

Questions? Contact Laura at Lobier@adlergiersch.com or call (206) 682-0300.

*This program is not produced by the WSCA. As such, discounted member pricing is not available.