Mary - Toxlaw

This is for Mary.

SIME panel for the State of Alaska 2000

This is a copy of an older SIME panel. Please note the names, they are not all from Alaska. Check with your state websites and see how many of these doctors are traveling to or from your state. If they are doing it here, there are claimants in other states who have been forced to see them as well. Do all you can to locate these people and compare cases. There are two names on this document that are of interest. Alan Broughton, he and his lab have both been criticized by the State of Alaska. Dr. Gunnar Heuser has also been criticized by the State of Alaska. I have documents, written by state personnel, to prove this and they will be included in the blog. These types of doctors are, in general opinion, listed here to make a show of legitimacy. The board doesn't select this kind of doctor, but if you scan through, you'll see many other names who find against patients. Read through the Decision and Orders. It is easy to see who is used regularly and the consistency of the denials and dismissed claims.

Melinda - Toxlaw

This is for Melinda.

Claimant Itinerary

The document in this post is an itinerary for a claimant.

There are three members of Parthenia Medical Group listed here. Two of the appointments are at 2841 Debarr Rd., Anchorage, Alaska. This office is in a hospital. This is also the office location of Dr. Beth Baker, SIME.

It is interesting that Carla Back is not conducting her appointment at the office of her business partners. She, instead, is seeing the patient in a hotel room.

This document is signed by Constance Livsey. Documents further down in the blog have more information about her. She, at the time of this situation, was a member of the State Medical Board.

This document is copied to a list of people as well. Of interest is Joe Cooper. He was a private insurance attorney who is now an Assistant Attorney General. He went on to become an Assistant Attorney General representing these doctors and the state against me. I am quite certain that he is not going to find a problem with Ajit Arora since he used this doctor against clients himself in private practice.

Can you see how the placement of key people in key jobs makes it easy to get claims denied? Check out the players involved and see how they fit into your case. This is a well organized structure of personnel.

Dr. Ajit Arora's former Anchorage, Alaska address

This is the address that Dr. Arora's group had listed as their Anchorage, Alaska office.

In Alaska, an IME and SIME, are not supposed to be affiliated. In the upper right hand corner, the address of Internal Medicine Associates is listed. This was the office of Dr. Beth Baker, SIME doctor. Of course, Arora did not keep staff at this address, so if someone called and asked for him, they were referred to the California office. An SIME and an IME sharing the same office and the receptionist answering the phone for both parties.

State Medical Board Roster

Fee Schedule - IME fees

I receive $460.54, for my injury, every two weeks. These doctors get free trips to Alaska, or whatever state they are called to perfom in, amazing amounts of money for their services and they hurt workers who desperately need help. We are all smart enough to know they wouldn't be called back for insurance work if they found in favor of the injured worker.

This is one of the lower payment schedules and it is an old one and I'm sure outdated. I am also quite certain none of the groups that provide insurance physicians have lowered their fees.

This prticular group advertizes offices in Alaska and Idaho on this schedule. Injured workers need to check which groups might be connected to the doctors they have been forced to see.

Thad Stanford - IME physician for the State of Alaska

The following documents are public information and were obtained from the internet.

The first series of documents show that Dr. Stanford was fined and had action taken against him by the State of Alaska for his lapse in licensure. The print is very small but it can be read if you double click on each document. I attempted to find a current copy, one more easily read, but found no record of Dr. Stanford's disciplinary action. The posted documents included here stand on their own merits as posted by the State of Alaska on their web page.

The two AWCB documents are copies of Decision and Orders provided by the worker's compensation board. These decisions apparently used reports provided by Dr. Stanford. In the very small print it can be seen that these two cases involving Dr. Stanford, were performed while he had a lapsed medical license. Please note other names on these documents, to include Constance Livsey and Fred Brown. Constance Livsey was, at the time, a member of the State Medical Board and is an insurance attorney who utilizes the services of the insurance doctors hired by the state of Alaska as well as private adjusters within the state. Fred Brown is a hearing officer who assists in the selection of these doctors, hears the cases and then takes part in the decision making. He decides who to find in favor of, the claimant's physician or the ones selected by himself and the board and/or others retained by insurance adjusters. Both of these high powered officials, as seen in just these two reports, used reports that were provided by a physician with a lapsed medical license.

Can any of you imagine what would have happened to any injured worker who tried to use a report written by a physician without a current medical license? It is imperative that you check out any and every physician hired by the insurance adjuster(s) involved in your case.