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Lowe -- who has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of Oviedo's plight among football fans -- told CNN the worldwide response from supporters is "absolutely astonishing."
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Zen Buddhists say that an oak tree is brought into creation by two concurrent forces: from the acorn, the seed full of promise and potential; and from the future tree itself, which wants to exist so badly, that it pulls the seeding forth out into the world: the tree creates the acorn from which it was born. The Buddhists love a little playful surrealism, non?
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Posted last week about the Internet scam we thought we got caught in, and got lots of good advice from peeps about contacting the authorities, the credit card company, etc.
Back in April, JR ordered a Litespeed titanium frame, and all the bits and bobs to make up the whole bike. The guy handling the order assured us it was all on track. JR was told he had to pay up front, it was nearly 5000. Well, time went on, and no bike. We were in almost daily contact by phone or email with the specialist, Cody Smith, who told us there was a bit of a delay in making the frame. By the end of May, we still had nothing except an assurance that the order was o.k., just the Litespeed folks had a lot more orders than expected for this particular bike and production was backed up. Then in June, we were told that Cody Smith was in hospital after a bike crash. July, another staff member told us Cody would not be back. All phone calls seemed to be answered by yet another new person, all said they would get back to us and never did.
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In November, we started trying again to contact them and got no replies to our emails. The phone numbers were out of service and the web site had moved!
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14/12/2004 at 19:33
The rest of the story......
The new web site states that expanding to a network of local outlets had not worked out and the firm had gone back to selling only from their main shop.
Last Friday the post office informed us a large package had arrived for John. One beautiful Litespeed titanium bike frame complete with handlebars, fork, saddle, seatpost, brake system, drive chain, etc etc. In fact everything to make up a brand new bike!
I have to say, in this case I was wrong. After calling John Cobb every name known to man (and some probably only to women!), he came through with his promise and delivered.
There ARE honest businessmen around after all. So all's well that ends well.
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14/12/2004 at 19:37
That's good news IW
Glad everything got sorted out in the end
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14/12/2004 at 19:38
I know you're most likely thinking what a pair of wallys.
I did moan and complain all the way about putting this order in, it's such a lot of money. And I never lost an opportunity of telling the Mr. he was throwing his (our!) money down the drain. But he was hoping against hope he'd get the bike eventually.
Seems I was wrong.
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14/12/2004 at 20:31
On the off chance you've changed your mind... i'll take it iff your hands for just a minimal handlng fee.
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14/12/2004 at 21:41
Looks like it will be a Happy Christmas after all for Mr IW. I think he should buy you a new bike now for your patience.
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14/12/2004 at 21:44
Ha bl...y ha! He'll never let it out of his sight now it's finally turned up. But I'm not having it in the bedroom, so there!
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Richard!!! Mwah.....
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Proponents of the use of pain and avoidance in training like to place themselves in the middle ground, using words like "balanced" to describe themselves and "extremist" to describe trainers who get the job done without hurting dogs. The most cursory examination of this framing, however, reveals that the underlying assumption – the reasonable, middle position is to employ pain and fear along with rewards – is faulty.
It's basically a rhetorical trick. For instance, the force free could claim the middle ground by saying, "I'm a balanced trainer because I use a judicious blend of prompting, shaping via approximation, capturing and reward removal. I used to be more of an extremist, using and defending the use of motivators such as pain, startle and fear, but started migrating in the 1980′s toward this more reasonable approach."
It's also worth noting that, on scores of issues, "middle ground" approaches can be framed as insane or immoral. Absolutist positions are common in society, especially regarding violence. There is a pretty absolute moratorium on the use of physical force by spouses. Nobody sane attempts to defend a "balanced" position regarding domestic abuse. We don't quibble – and notably the American Psychological Association doesn't prevaricate – about, say, dragging by the hair if the scalp isn't bloodied in the process, or punches to the face if there are no really *big* bruises left.
I can't think of anybody who's very "balanced" about the use of physical coercion by teachers either, even though it'd likely be more motivating to use some electric shock on scholastic under-performers: "Sure, the desire to get good grades and the good careers that follow are okay motivators, but why limit ourselves to two measly quadrants when we can have the richness of four. We would, of course, have to give it some other name than electric shock, which has unfortunate baggage. Maybe E-ducation or something."
I and everybody I know also have extremist positions regarding shaking babies, hitting children, flogging military personnel who go AWOL, using shock on the developmentally disabled, amputating the digits of violent offenders, briefly choking employees under one's supervision if they are chronically late for work, waterboarding high-school bullies, or rendering the dead into food for the starving. There are, in theory, more moderate, balanced positions on these and many other issues.
There was a time in recent history when all kinds of violent practices that would get one arrested today were both legal and considered a private choice. Not that long ago, you could easily be labeled a pious extremist for suggesting that parents shouldn't smack their kids around or that husbands couldn't "discipline" their wives. Dog training is headed, like other parts of modern society, like a steam train in the "it's not okay to hurt and scare them" direction and it's unsurprising that trainers who like shock are going down kicking and screaming as did their predecessors. If you're young enough, you'll probably live to see the day of back-pedaling by organizations who would dearly love to bury their current policy statements that bless the use of any training tool at the trainer's discretion.
Another rhetorical device you might have seen is the contention that everybody is using coercion because, look, you've got a leash on that dog when you take him for a walk! The equivalent argument would be that a parent who holds a child's hand while crossing the street is a hypocrite for lobbying against child battery. I don't know whether the coercion crowd are just throwing shit at the wall, arguments-wise, or whether they actually can't tease out the difference between managing the behavior of a member of society who, with absolute physical liberty, could easily run out into the street, and the hitting, strangling or shocking of that same member of society. It's pretty eye-popping if you think about it. But it often does seem to be their idea of a trump card.
I sometimes wonder who will be the very last self-selected – as opposed to legally mandated – crossover trainer, and if they'll breathe a sigh of relief that their legacy, for all to see in succeeding generations, is that they weren't among the very last hold-outs.
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Are Dogs Pack Animals?
This 2009 piece is from a now-defunct previous blog.
When I first got into dog training, the mantra was "dogs are pack animals." It was never questioned: dogs were strong bonding animals and fit into human families so well, sometimes to the point of developing bona fide disorders like separation anxiety. And a lot of behavior was deconstructed with social hierarchies in mind. Nobody examined what dogs do when they are not inserted into human families, i.e. are free-ranging. So a while ago I took a look at what is known about feral or semi-feral populations of dogs around the world. It turns out there are many such populations.
During the tenure of dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu, a poorly thought out reconstruction effort in Romania resulted in the demolition of thousands of houses and the relocation of thousands of families into small apartments throughout the country. For family dogs, this meant being turned out onto the street, where they have multiplied and eked out a marginal existence ever since.
A sad situation from every possible angle, the explosion of free-ranging dogs in Romania is an unintended experiment that challenges one of the most taken for granted aphorisms in the dog behavior world: that dogs are "pack animals." The dogs in Romania have not formed packs. Their associations with one another are brief and casual: a couple of dogs may hang out together temporarily and then part company. Dogs are often drawn
together by a scarce resource like a food source or estrous female but once this magnet is gone, they go their separate ways.
This contrasts with wolves who, while a genetically identical species to dogs, live in packs. As explained by University of Minnesota biologist David Mech, each pack is a nuclear family consisting of a breeding pair and their offspring. When the offspring reach
maturity around two years of age, they disperse to avoid inbreeding depression and, if they live long enough, mate up and start their own packs.
The social lives of Romanian dogs may be the exception that proves the rule, so it's
necessary to examine all free-ranging populations in order to formulate a stronger hypothesis about dog social behavior.
Significant populations of free-ranging domestic dogs exist in sub-Saharan Africa, South America, India, Mexico, on the Cook Islands, Hawaii, Bangkok and, in a situation paralleling that of Romania, in Moscow. Pariah dogs on the Indian subcontinent
are thought to be the longest-running continuous population of feral dogs – on the order of 14,000 years.
There are cases of dogs buddying up with one or more dogs for days at a time, and dogs being drawn into proximity to each other by food sources, however none of the above populations form packs the way wolves do. Males, in fact, do not participate in the rearing of puppies, which is the foundation of a wolf pack. And, scavenging far outpaces hunting as primary food-acquisition activity, another difference from wolves, who hunt much more.
By contrast, the accounts regarding the social behavior of Dingoes are much more conflicting. Often the same source will in one paragraph say that Dingoes are primarily loners that only occasionally pack up with a few others to take down a large prey item and later state that Dingoes are pack animals with stable hierarchies, a la Gray Wolf. Recent genetics research has allowed for the teasing out of pure Dingoes from Dingo-dog hybrids most of the time. Interestingly, hybrids are often outwardly indistinguishable from pure Dingoes to an untrained eye. So to be generous, it could be that the disagreement
between (and within) sources is partially due to some observations being of mixed ancestry animals and some of pure Dingoes.
A colleague of mine who has made trips to the Cook Islands to provide veterinary care to the feral dog population was struck by two things: the large numbers of short-legged dogs, and the absence of social cohesiveness. She fully expected and looked for packs, having heard and parroted for years, as have I, the party line of "dogs are pack animals." Again and again, she witnessed what Dunbar has termed "loose, transitory associations" rather than packs.
If we are to support our contention that dogs are pack animals, we will need to account for these many populations where dogs, in the absence of the glue of human confinement and
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Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Vince Rowlands said it was ideal conditions for people having Christmas lunch outside or at the beach.
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The blockbuster took in $61.1 million to remain the No. 1 film in its second weekend.
Studio estimates Sunday put "The Hunger Games" well ahead of Sam Worthington's action sequel "Wrath of the Titans," which opened in second-place with $34.2 million. That's far below the $61.2 million opening of its predecessor, "Clash of the Titans," two years ago.
Julia Roberts' comic "Snow White" reinvention "Mirror Mirror" debuted at No. 3 with $19 million. Roberts plays the wicked queen opposite Lily Collins as Snow White.
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AN Evesham centenarian celebrated her 100th birthday a day late, in keeping with a family tradition.
Unwittingly, Rosa Hyde had always celebrated her birthday one day after she was born because she only discovered the date was not her true birthday when she was 75. Nethertheless, she has continued to celebrate it on the 28th since finding out.
Mrs Hyde was born in Avonside Hospital, Evesham, on February 27, 1913 and marked her century last Thursday at her town centre home.
Her son Trevor Hyde said: "She doesn't know why it was celebrated on a different day.
She had always assumed the 28th was her birthday. She found out because we had to get her birth certificate. It will be interesting to see what the telegram says. Mum is looking forward to that."
The family have another reason to celebrate as Andrew Hyde, one of Mrs Hyde's three grandchildren, celebrated his 50th birthday on the same day.
Mrs Hyde lived in Lower Moor as a young girl before her family moved to Gosport, near Portsmouth, where her dad served in the Army during the First World War.
They returned to the Vale a few years on and lived in Cowl Street, with Mrs Hyde attending Swan Lane School.
She later met her husband, Arthur Hyde, when he moved in opposite. The two were married in All Saints Church, Evesham. Arthur Hyde worked at the town's gas works and Mrs Hyde at the Beeches jam factory until their first child, Trevor, was born in 1936. His sister, Patricia, joined him in 1950.
"She is incredible for her age," said her son. "You wouldn't think she was coming up to 100. She still does the crossword every day, knits for herself and crochets baby clothes. We have always put her age down to eating so many vegetables and never smoking."


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Pharisees were the most numerous, influential religious sect of Yahushua's day. They were strict legalists, believed in rigid observance of the letter of the law, also the oral tradition which they believed had as much authority, or more, as the written Torah.
Did they prefer to keep traditions of men?
During Yahushua's time the oral law was highly revered and was said to go back to Mosheh himself, passed down over the centuries orally, equal to the written law. This is what they believed. It was these "oral traditions" that Yahushua condemned. The evolution of the "oral tradition" continued to grow, and was finally written as the "Mishnah" in 200 AD.
The Pharisees were first mentioned in Matthew 3:7-9 when John the Immerser said to them, "brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our Father…" The first statement Yahushua made concerning them was also negative.
Matthew 5:20: "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter into the reign of the heavens."
Another example is Matthew 15:1-2: "…why do your taught ones transgress the tradition of the elders (not the Torah)? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
The Pharisees were more concerned about "the tradition of the elders" even though there is no Scriptural requirement to wash hands before eating bread. The "oral law" was called the "traditions of the elders" or the "commands of men (Matthew 15:8-9)."
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The history, examination and decision making are the key components in determining the level of E/M service to bill. Providers must use one of the following guidelines to determine the appropriate level of service.
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Chart notes must contain documentation that justifies the level of service billed.
L&I uses the CPT definitions of new and established patients. If a patient presents with a work related condition and meets the definition in a provider's practice as
- A new patient, then a new patient E/M should be billed.
- An established patient, then an established patient E/M service should be billed, even if the provider is treating a new work related condition for the first time.
L&I allows attending providers to charge for E/M services in:
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Payment of prolonged E/M is allowed with a maximum of 3 hours per day per patient. These services are payable only when another E/M code is billed on the same day using the following CMS payment criteria:
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99354 | 99201-99205, 99212-99215, 99241-99245 or 99324-99350 |
99355 | 99354 and 1of the E/M codes required for 99354 |
99356 | 99221-99223, 99231-99233, 99251-99255, 99304-99310 |
99357 | 99356 and 1of the E/M codes required for 99356 |
The time counted toward payment for prolonged E/M services includes only direct face-to-face contact between the provider and the patient (whether the service was continuous or not). Prolonged physician services without direct contact are bundled and are not payable in addition to other E/M codes. Refer to the above CMS websites for more information.
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Example 2:
A worker goes to a physician's office for a scheduled follow up visit for a work related injury. During the examination, the physician determines that the worker's condition requires a course of treatment that includes a trigger point injection at this time. The trigger point injection was not scheduled previously as part of the E/M visit.
The physician gives the injection during the visit. This is a significant separately identifiable procedure performed at the time of the E/M service. For the same time and date of service, the physician may bill the appropriate:
- CPT® code for the injection and
- E/M code with the –25 modifier
Example 3:
A worker arrives at a physician's office in the morning for a scheduled follow up visit for a work
related injury. That afternoon, the worker's condition worsens and the worker seeks immediate
medical attention and returns to the office without an appointment. The office staff or triage
nurse agrees that the worker needs to be seen.
The provider sees the patient for a second office visit. Since the 2 visits were completely separate, both E/M services may be billed.
- The scheduled visit would be billed with the E/M code alone and
- The unscheduled visit would be billed with the E/M code with the –25 modifier.
If the worker is treated for 2 separate conditions at the same visit, the charge for the service must be divided equally between the payers. If evaluation and treatment of the 2 injuries increases the complexity of the visit, a higher level E/M code might be billed. If this is the case, CPT® guidelines must be followed and the documentation must support the level of service billed. A physician would only be paid for more than 1 evaluation and management visit if there were 2 separate and distinct visits on the same day (see the Example 3 above). Scheduling back-to-back appointments does not meet the criteria for using the –25 modifier.
Separate chart notes and reports must be submitted when there are 2 different claims. The claims may be from injuries while working for 2 different employers and the employers only have the right to information about injuries they are responsible for.
List all workers' compensation claims treated in Box 11 of the CMS-1500
form when submitting paper bills to L&I and in the remarks section when
submitting electronic claims. L&I will divide charges equally to the claims.
If part of the visit is for a condition unrelated to an accepted L&I or self-insured claim and part is
for the accepted condition, providers must apportion their usual and customary charges equally
between L&I or the self-insurer and the other payer based on the level of service provided
during the visit. In this case, separate chart notes for the accepted condition should be sent to
the insurer since the employer does not have the right to see information about an unrelated condition.
Example 1:
A worker goes to a physician to be treated for a work related shoulder injury and a separate
work related knee injury. The physician treats both work related injuries. The provider bills L&I
for 1 visit listing both workers' compensation claims in Box 11 of the CMS-1500 form. L&I will
divide charges equally to the claims.
Example 2:
A worker goes to a physician's office to be treated for work related injury. During the
examination, the worker mentions that he was in a car accident yesterday and now has neck
pain. The physician treats the work related injury and the neck pain associated with the motor
vehicle accident. The provider would bill 50% of his usual and customary fee to L&I or selfinsurer
and 50% to the insurance company paying for the motor vehicle accident. L&I or selfinsurer
would only be responsible for the portion related to the accepted work related injury.
The insurer pays for physician standby services when all the following criteria are met:
- Another physician requested the standby service; and
- The standby service involves prolonged physician attendance without direct face-to-face patient contact; and
- The standby physician is not concurrently providing care or service to other patients during this period; and
- The standby service does not result in the standby physician's performance of a procedure subject to a "surgical package" and
- Standby services of 30 minutes or more are provided.
Subsequent periods of standby beyond the first 30 minutes may be reported and are payable only when a full 30 minutes of standby was provided for each unit of service reported. Round all fractions of a 30 minute period downward. A report is required when billing for physician standby services.
Team Conferences
Team conferences may be payable when the attending provider, consultant or psychologist meets with one or more of the following:
- An interdisciplinary team of health professionals
- L&I staff
- Vocational rehabilitation counselors
- Nurse case managers
- L&I medical consultants
- Self-insured employers or their representatives
- Physical and occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists
Billing codes
Patient status | CPT® code (Physicians) | CPT® code (Nonphysicians) |
Patient present | Appropriate level E&M | 99366 |
Patient not present | 99367 | 99368 |
Multiple units of 99366, 99367 and 99368 may be billed for conferences exceeding 30 minutes:
Duration of conference | Units billed |
Up to 30 minutes | 1 unit |
Up to 60 minutes | 2 units |
Physical and Occupational Therapists
Physical and occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists may be paid for attendance at a team conference only when the conference is authorized in advance by the Medical Director/Associate Medical Director at L&I or the self-insured employer.
To be authorized all of the following criteria must be met:
- There is a moderate to high probability of severe, prolonged functional impairment. This may be addressed with the development of a multidisciplinary approach to the plan of care; and
- The need for a conference exceeds the expected routine correspondence/communication among healthcare/vocational providers; and
- The worker is not participating in a program in which payment for conference is already included in the program payment (For example, head injury program, pain clinic, work hardening); and
- 3 or more disciplines/specialties need to participate, including PT, OT or Speech.
To be paid for the conference the therapists must:
- Bill using CPT® code 99366 if the patient is present or 99368 if the patient is not present.
- Bill on a CMS-1500 form
- Submit a separate report of the conference; joint reports are not allowed. The conference report must include:
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of the previous therapy plan; and
- New goal-oriented, time-limited treatment plan or
- Objective measures of function that address the return to work process.
- Duration of the conference
NOTE: Providers in a hospital setting may only be paid if the services are billed on a CMS-1500 with an individual provider account number.
Telephone Calls
Telephone calls are payable to the attending provider, consultant, psychologist or other provider only when they personally participate in the call. These services are payable when discussing or coordinating care or treatment with:
- The worker
- L&I staff
- Vocational rehabilitation counselors
- Nurse case managers
- Health services coordinators (COHE)
- L&I medical consultants
- Other physicians
- Other providers
- Self-insured employers or their representatives
NOTE: L&I does not adhere to the CPT® limits for telephone calls
Telephone calls are payable regardless of when the previous or next office visit occurs.
ARNPs, PAs, psychologists, PTs and OTs must bill using nonphysician codes.
Telephone calls for authorization, resolution of billing issues or ordering prescriptions are not payable.
Duration | CPT® code (Physicians) | CPT® code (Nonphysicians) |
5-10 minutes | 99441 | 98966 |
11-20 minutes | 99442 | 98967 |
21-30 minutes | 99443 | 98968 |
Documentation Requirements
Documentation for case management services (team conferences and telephone calls) must include:
- The date, and
- The participants and their titles, and
- The length of the call or visit, and
- The nature of the call or visit, and
- All medical, vocational or return to work decisions made.
Psychiatrists and clinical psychologists may only bill for these services when also providing consultation or evaluation.
Team conference documentation must also include a goal-oriented, time-limited treatment plan covering:
- Medical,
- Surgical,
- Vocational or return to work activities, or
- Objective measures of function
The treatment plan must allow a determination whether a previously created plan is effective in returning the worker to an appropriate level of function.
Online Communications and Consultations
Electronic online communications (email) with the worker are payable only when personally
made by the attending provider, consultant, psychologist or physical or occupational therapist
who has an existing relationship with the worker.
Online communications must be conducted over a secure network, developed and
implemented using guidelines from reputable industry sources such as those published by:
- The American Medical Association
- The Federation of State Medical Boards
- The eRisk Working Group for Healthcare
Services payable for communications with workers include:
- Follow up care resulting from a face-to-face visit that does not require a return to the office.
- Non-urgent consultations regarding an accepted condition when the equivalent service provided in person would have resulted in a charge.
- Reporting and interpreting diagnostic tests that require counseling and adjustments to treatment or medications.
- Discussions of return-to-work activities with workers and employers.
Services not payable include:
- Routine requests for appointments.
- Test results that are informational only.
- Requests for prescription refills.
- Consultations that result in an office visit.
Electronic communications are also payable when discussing or coordinating care, treatment or return-to-work activities with:
- L&I staff
- Vocational rehabilitation counselors
- Case managers
- L&I medical consultants
- Self-insured representatives
- Employers
Documentation Requirements
Documentation for electronic communications must include:
- The date, and
- The participants and their titles, and
- The nature of the communication, and
- All medical, vocational or return to work decisions made.
Provider and CPT® code | Nonfacility fee | Facility fee |
Physician - 99444 | $44.37 | $42.55 |
Nonphysician - 98969 | $44.37 | $42.55 |
The insurer allows separate payment for physician care plan oversight services (CPT codes 99375, 99378 and 99380). Payment is limited to 1 per attending provider, per patient, per 30 day period. Care plan services (CPT codes 99374, 99377 and 99379) of less than 30 minutes within a 30 day period are considered part of E/M services and are not separately payable.
Payment for care plan oversight to a physician providing post surgical care during the postoperative period will be made only:
- If the care plan oversight is documented as unrelated to the surgery and
- Modifier –24 is used.
The attending provider (not staff) must perform these services. The medical record must document the medical necessity as well as the level of service.
L&I adopted a modified version of CMS's policy on teleconsultations and other telehealth
services. Telehealth services and teleconsultations require an interactive telecommunication
system, consisting of special audio and video equipment that permits real-time consultation
between the patient and consultant.
Coverage of Teleconsultations
Teleconsultations are covered in the same manner as face-to-face consultations (refer to WACs 296-20-045 and –051), but in addition, all of the following conditions must be met:
- The consultant must be a doctor as described in WAC 296-20-01002 or a PhD Clinical Psychologist. A consulting DC must be an approved consultant with L&I; and
- The referring provider must be 1 of the following: MD, DO, ND, DPM, OD, DMD, DDS, DC, ARNP, PA or PhD Clinical Psychologist; and
- The patient must be present at the time of the consultation; and
- The exam of the patient must be under the control of the consultant; and
- Interactive audio and video telecommunications must be used allowing real time communication between the patient and the consultant; and
- The consultant must submit a written report documenting this service to the referring provider, and must send a copy to the insurer; and
- A referring provider who is not the attending must consult with the attending provider before making the referral.
Coverage of other Telehealth Services
Other procedures and office visits that are covered include:
- Follow up visits after the initial consultation
- Psychiatric intake and evaluation
- Individual psychotherapy
- Pharmacologic management
- End stage renal disease (ESRD) services
Payment of Teleconsultations and other Telehealth Services
Teleconsultations and telehealth services are paid in the same manner as face-to-face visits. The insurers will pay according to the following criteria:
- Providers must append a GT modifier to 1 of the appropriate services listed in the table below.
- No separate payment will be made for the review and interpretation of the patient's medical records and/or the required report that must be submitted to the referring provider and to the insurer.
Providers may bill these services: |
Consultation codes |
Office or other outpatient visits |
Psychiatric intake and assessment |
Individual psychotherapy |
Pharmacologic management |
End stage renal disease (ESRD) services |
Originating Facility
The insurer will pay an originating site facility fee for the use of the telecommunications equipment. Bill for these services with HCPCS code:
The insurer will only pay for a professional service by the referring provider if it is a separately identifiable service provided on the same day as the telehealth service.
Documentation for both must be clearly and separately identified in the medical record.
Telemedicine Services Not Covered
Procedures and services not covered include:
- "Store and Forward" technology, asynchronous transmission of medical information to be reviewed by the consultant at a later time.
- Facsimile transmissions.
- Installation or maintenance of telecommunication equipment or systems.
- Home health monitoring.
- Telehealth transmission, per minute (HCPCS code T1014).
L&I follows CMS's policy regarding the use of E/M services along with dialysis services. E/M services (CPT codes 99231-99233 and 99307-99310) are not payable on the same date as hospital inpatient dialysis (CPT codes 90935, 90937, 90945 and 90947). These E/M services are bundled in the dialysis service.
Separate billing and payment will be allowed when billed on the same date as an inpatient dialysis service for:
- An initial hospital visit (CPT codes 99221-99223),
- An initial inpatient consultation (CPT codes 99251-99255) and
- A hospital discharge service (CPT code 99238 or 99239)


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Two years ago, Fred Kramer took a big, luxurious break from work to travel the world and find himself.
In March, as the newly minted executive director of Jewish World Watch, he found himself locked in a jail cell with George Clooney.
"It was quite a day," Kramer said of the civil disobedience he stirred alongside the world's most famous movie star, outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C.
It began with a protest walk from the Religious Action Center, just down the street from the embassy, but instantly morphed into a paparazzi party, as hordes of reporters desperately cleaved to Clooney. "People were literally tripping over themselves," Kramer recalled. Kramer got his one-on-one from a Clooney-side seat in the cop car.
"I rode in the wagon with him; we got booked together at the police station; then we were in a cell together for two or three hours before everything got resolved and they let us out," Kramer said nonchalantly.
Just a short time ago it would have been almost impossible to imagine that he'd be touting his celebrity run-ins to draw attention to his work, but Kramer's unexpected turn from business developer to nonprofit overseer has demanded it.
"Our culture is clearly somewhat infatuated with celebrities," he said.
A mellow, free-spirited type with a penchant for white linen, Kramer once fancied the artist's life.
An early foray into filmmaking that produced two smallish independent films — "Wednesday's Child" (1999) and "Amy's Orgasm" (2001) — quickly proved to him that "my movies were not going to end up getting made." So he quit producing and went to work developing the technology company WithoutABox, an online international film-festival application program that, after just eight years, he and his partners sold to the Web giant Internet Movie Database. At 37, Kramer had a bundle of cash and a ballooning wanderlust, which he parlayed into a 34-foot Catalina sailboat and a one-year sabbatical.
When he wasn't wandering Peru, India or one of six countries in Africa, he was likely to be found chattering in the back at IKAR, the synagogue where he served as board chair. But if the social justice seed was nurtured within the walls of the Westside JCC, it flourished while traveling through the African wilderness, where his wanderings brought him into contact with the consequences of modern genocide.
He returned to Los Angeles inspired to act but unsure what to do. A friend told him Jewish World Watch was looking for an executive director. "My initial reaction was, 'This is not what I do,' " Kramer said. "I had considered myself a businessman, and had assumed when I began looking for new work that it would be finding a new business and making money. I had never really considered the option of running a non-profit."
He said his involvement with IKAR "had a tremendous effect on my willingness to try something like this, both [in terms] of my Jewish identity and my obligation toward the world." From living in the lap of luxury to visiting the depths of deprivation, Kramer found himself compelled to support "people having a more difficult time than I am."
Los Angeles, land of plenty, was the perfect place from which to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. "I can tell you that the level of attention we're able to draw to our issues when a public figure is advocating for them alongside us is completely different than what we are able to attract when they are not," Kramer said. The glitter of fame has two sides. "Clearly it's effective."
Which is why one of Kramer's early priorities in his new position is to use L.A.'s backyard celebrity candy store to bring attention to his organization's cause. On May 20, the Jewish World Watch annual 5K "Walk to End Genocide" will take place at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles, and for the first time some notable Hollywood names will join: Josh Radnor (star of CBS' "How I Met Your Mother"), Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda," "Ocean's Eleven") and TV's Lisa Edelstein ("House").
For some of those connections, Kramer owes a debt to his fiancée, actress Michaela Watkins, who represents another sea change in his life inspired by his travels. "It was really an opening on a number of fronts," he said, "and that element of the journey started when I met the woman of my dreams."
Kramer's dreams for Jewish World Watch include more interfaith work, expanding programming around the country and creating an office for the organization in Washington, D.C. And just maybe, a little help from Clooney.
"One of the things I asked of him," — in jail — "was, I said, 'You know, we have the world's largest solar cooker project,' " which provides women and girls with a cooking alternative that eliminates the dangers of collecting firewood. "And in a movie he did, 'The Men Who Stare at Goats,' he actually kicks a solar cooker and talks about what a piece of s—- it is.
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