HR Hero Audio Conference on CD and Streaming Audio
AMA Guides, Sixth Edition: The New Paradigm and Other Critical Changes
Asa Baker
November 19, 2008

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If you're an employer or workers' comp professional, you don't want to miss the critical audio conference from HR Hero, AMA Guides, Sixth Edition: The New Paradigm, and Other Critical Changes.

Effective January 1, 2008, the Sixth Edition of the AMA Guides introduced a new paradigm that emphasizes diagnosis over functional assessment. This could result in lower impairment ratings for conditions such as two-level cervical fusion and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Learn how the new paradigm and other changes will affect benefits awarded to injured employees by participating in this live event.

In just 60 minutes, an attorney who focuses his practice in insurance defense will cover the most common injuries sustained by workers, as well as:

• The new paradigm
  - Diagnosis: In the past, the AMA Guides emphasized functional assessment, where impairment ratings could be based on loss of strength, loss of range-of-motion, or loss of sensation. Now, the AMA Guides emphasize diagnosis, where impairment rating can be based on whether the injury is to soft tissue, muscle or tendon, or ligament, bone, or joint.
  - Adjustment: The diagnosis-based impairment is then adjusted up or down according to other non-key factors, such as functional history, physical examination, and clinical studies.
  - Diagnostic-based grids: Diagnostic-based grids were developed for each organ system. The grids arrange diagnoses into five classes of impairment severity, according to consensus-based dominant criterion.
  - Severity grid: The functionally based history, physical findings, and broadly accepted clinical test results, where applicable, are then integrated to determine severity grade and provide a corresponding impairment value.
• Examples of conditions for which impairment rating will be lower under Sixth Edition:
  - Two-level cervical fusion
  - Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Notable changes regarding the assignment of impairment ratings in various categories of injuries
  - Shoulders
  - Neck/cervical spine
  - Upper extremities
  - Lower extremities
  - Lower back
  

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Because AMA Guides, Sixth Edition: The New Paradigm and Other Critical Changes is an audio seminar on CD you enjoy:

• Fast, convenient learning without any out-of-office time lost.
• No travel-related expenses or complications.
• The perfect way to train as many employees as you like.

About Your Guest Speaker, Asa Baker P>Asa Baker, with the Memphis office of Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan PLLC, focuses his practice in corporate defense and insurance defense. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Baker clerked in the Mississippi Supreme Court. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi and his Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College. Mr. Baker currently serves as Memphis/Shelby County Representative to the Young Lawyers' Division of the Tennessee Bar Association. Also, he currently serves as Chair of the Law Practice Management Committee of the Young Lawyers' Division of the American Bar Associations. He recently presented a seminar to attorneys on workers' compensation through the National Business Institute.

 

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AMA Guides, Sixth Edition: The New Paradigm and Other Critical Changes is $227.

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