Training for Doctors & Insurance Professionals
Section 1: Training for Insurance Professionals
(Approved by the Commission for Case Manager Certification)
To help our clients manage psychological/psychiatric claims, PsyBar has developed the nation’s only on-line advanced IME training program for insurance professionals. Among its goals are to help insurers:
- Develop appropriate, file specific referral questions
- Understand the IME Facilitator’s role
- Select the proper professional to perform the IME
- Understand tests of validity and effort
- Learn when to request neuropsychological evaluations
- Understand "Cognitive Impairment" and neuropsychology
- Recognize problems diagnosing subjective illness
PsyBar offers this training program to clarify important issues and to help us consistently deliver clear and objective independent evaluations. PsyBar is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PsyBar maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Click here to go to our on-line training.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to call or write us, and we would be happy to discuss this program and perhaps arrange a seminar for your company.
Section 2: Training for Independent Examining Doctors
To improve the quality of psychological and psychiatric disability IMEs, PsyBar has developed the nation’s only on-line advanced IME training program for psychologists and psychiatrists. Highlights of this training include instructing doctors to:
- Concentrate on functionality (i.e. what the claimant can do)
- Support their opinions with objective test results
- Express opinions clearly, in lay terms
- Avoid offering opinions about limitations in functioning caused by physical problems
- Support their opinions with examples of behavior
- Document the sources of their information
- Not assume the role of a treating doctor
PsyBar offers this training program to all of its doctors, to help us deliver clear and objective IMEs. It requires doctors to pass an examination testing their knowledge on a variety of insurance-related topics. PsyBar LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PsyBar LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Click here to go to our on-line training.
If you have questions, please feel free to call or write us, and we would be happy to discuss this program, and how it improves the quality of evaluations our doctors provide to you.