Personal Injury Made Easy

10/01/2025

Time for Tip Tuesday!
This tip is for you and your team to learn, apply, and improve! Here’s your tip for this week:

How Medical Documentation Shapes Justice in Personal Injury
Part 4: Clinical Storytelling & Billing Integrity

Your records should connect care, narrative, and billing into one consistent story. Use SOAP notes as a clear timeline, not copy-paste entries. Keep narrative reports strictly medical, not legal. Match coding with your findings and update as conditions change. Every charge must have a clinical reason. Consistency across notes, reports, and billing keeps credibility strong.
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Stay sharp and get ahead — in PI, the prepared providers always come out on top.

Your documentation is the bridge to justice. This post shows how thoughtful notes, accurate billing, and strong reports are critical for a patient's personal injury case.

09/30/2025

The data doesn’t lie.

Doctors who take on PI billing alone? Burned out, with only 15% transparency and 10% legal knowledge.
Office staff? Overwhelmed, pulling just 38% from difficult firms.
Even billing companies, with their ‘expertise,’ still leave practices at 24% net revenues.

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09/29/2025

This 2-Minute Monday Personal Injury Mindset for Healthcare Providers is about patient fraud and how to approach it.

2MMM: Don’t Participate, Stand Up and Act Where Younger Patients Are Committing Fraud

A disturbing study at the University of Georgia by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud found that 2 out of 5 adults under 34 years of age were more likely to commit insurance fraud.

Listen in as I talk about what this study means and what you should do with this knowledge.

This is bad for personal injury and bad for our society in general.

Why? Because integrity matters and character counts.

Listen in!

A disturbing study at the University of Georgia by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud found that 2 out of 5 adults under 34 years of age were more likely to commit insurance fraud. I find this greatly concerning. Many of our youth are anti-big business and especially anti-insurer. They find it cl...

09/26/2025

Time for Fun Fact Friday!

Did you know?

In the past, the White House was not just a Presidential mansion but also a zoo.

Over the years, presidents have kept some bizarre pets: John Quincy Adams had an alligator in the bathroom, Calvin Coolidge walked a pet raccoon named Rebecca on a leash, and Theodore Roosevelt filled the place with a bear, lion, hyena, snakes, and even a pony that rode the elevator.

Imagine visiting the President and bumping into that crew!

Have a great weekend!

Most the 45 presidents of the United States have brought pets with them to the White House — and some have been pretty unusual.

09/26/2025

BEWARE: Many Gen Z'ers and younger Millenials Are Okay with Defrauding Insurers

An insurer study found that two out of five age 25 to 34 are okay with defrauding insurers, viewing it as a clever way to save (or make) money. This highlights a disconnect between that generation and mine (Baby Boomers). This is not only a bad trend for our youth, but also for medical offices treating PI patients.

Worse, some medical providers are aiding and abetting this fraud, and thus commiting fraud themselves. If you are part of that, STOP! It's not worth your license, your reputation or your personal integrity.

This also means you need to have your antennae up when treating patients. Don't get dragged into fraud by patients.

Read the article in full.

According to the researchers and the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, these common actions all qualify as fraud—even if many people do not realize it:

--Padding claims: Adding damages that occurred before an accident to a new insurance claim.
--Lying on applications: Providing false information, such as listing your car at your parents' address instead of where it's actually parked, to get lower premiums.
--False medical billing: Helping a provider bill an insurer for treatments you didn't actually receive.
--Omitting key details: Leaving out important information about health conditions, driving history, or property risks to secure cheaper coverage.
--Exaggerating losses: Inflating the value of stolen or damaged property when filing a claim.

A sad trend and an area where we the elders need to step up in our mentoring, guidance and "sticking our nose in". Integirty matters and character counts, and we need to change this trend in our youth.

"The younger generation just might have a weaker connection to morality," said consumer economist professor Brenda Cude.

09/25/2025

- It's not enough to document for clinical accuracy, compliance, insurance reimbursement, and continuity of care in personal injury.

When treating PI patients, you’re no longer just recording what happened, you’re helping determine what happens next.

What you document and how you document it can dramatically influence the financial outcome of a PI case... and that changes EVERYTHING.

Reach out if you need help growing your PI segments, improving your processes, or getting paid more. At , we have a few ways to support you!

https://personalinjurymadeeasy.com/how-medical-documentation-shapes-justice-in-personal-injury-pt1/

09/24/2025

For Pain Physicians and ASC's, as reported by Becker from other publications. Can you guess the new staffing crisis for ASC's? See below.

The next big staffing crisis in ASCs

ASCs are already feeling the strain this fall as staffing challenges deepend beyond the well-documented nursing shortage. Rising case complexity, workforce burnout and reimbursement pressures are exposing new vulnerabilities in anesthesia, robotics support and specialized perioperative care.

Here are five things to know:

1: Anesthesia workforce shortages: The anesthesia workforce is under acute strain. Provider shortages, reimbursement cuts and burnout are colliding with rising surgical demand, threatening OR efficiency and patient access — especially in rural areas. Many ASCs are shifting to CRNA-only or hybrid models to compensate.

2: Burnout and pay pressure in anesthesia: Reimbursement declines and increasing workload are driving burnout and turnover in anesthesia roles. More than 40% of anesthesia professionals are considering leaving their current roles within two years, citing work hours, administrative burden and compensation issues, according to an August report from the American Medical Association.

3: Technical staff for robotics and navigation: As robotics, navigation and advanced imaging grow more common in spine and orthopedic surgeries, ASCs will need staff who can support and maintain those systems. These roles are not just helpful — they’re foundational to expanding higher-acuity case volume.

4: Specialized perioperative care: Beyond general OR and nursing roles, ASCs need perioperative specialists in spine, orthopaedics and cardiac support. Staffing shortages in these specialties have been linked to procedure delays and workflow disruptions, particularly as more complex musculoskeletal and spine cases move outpatient.

5: Financial strain from staffing gaps: Shortages in anesthesia coverage drive up ASC costs in several ways, including higher provider pay, canceled cases, and reduced surgical volume. At the same time, rising labor expenses are contributing to a broader financial storm for ASCs, as shrinking reimbursements and inflation further erode already thin margins.

09/23/2025

Time for Tip Tuesday!

This tip is for you and your team to learn, apply, and improve! Here’s your tip for this week:

How Medical Documentation Shapes Justice in Personal Injury
Part 3: Bridging the Gaps and Building the Patient’s Story

Unexplained gaps in care or vague notes can weaken your patient’s case. Always document why delays happen, what changed, and how it affected daily life. Show your clinical independence, record referral decisions, and update plans when new information arrives. Every filled gap keeps your credibility strong and your patient’s story intact.
Read the full blog » &complianceinsights

Stay sharp and get ahead because in PI, the prepared providers always come out on top.

Stop defense attorneys from using gaps in your medical records against your patient. Discover essential documentation strategies to protect and strengthen personal injury cases.

09/22/2025

This 2-Minute Personal Injury Healthcare Tip for Medical Offices if about protecting your business from huge risk and potential gigantic loss.

2MMM: Do NOT Report Patient Medical Debt to Credit Reporting Agencies

There is an attack on independent medical practices going on around this country.

Currently, about 15 states have passed laws which say, in effect, that if you take certain action on medical debt owed by patients for your office, that debt—your bills—are “void” and unenforceable.

Meaning, if you violate these laws you lose your bill collection rights and may even have to repay any monies you did receive, not to mention other legal exposure.

That’s right, even if you provided exceptional patient care, you can’t get paid and may have opened yourself or your office up to a legal attack.

Listen in as I talk about what’s going on around the country how California went a step farther that puts every independent medical office at risk if you don’t act now.

It’s important you are aware of what’s going on and that you take the action you deem appropriate as a result.

Listen in!

There is an attack on independent medical practices going on around this country. Currently, about 15 states have passed laws which say, in effect, that if you report medical debt to a credit reporting agency, such as say Equifax, your bill is void and unenforceable. That’s right: you lose any rig...

09/19/2025

Time for Fun Fact Friday!

Did you know?

In Jurassic Park (1993), the terrifying velociraptor screeches weren’t from dinosaurs at all—they were actually recordings of tortoises mating!

Here is a funny video on it.

It's been on the internet forever so we finally bring it to the show

09/16/2025

Your Tuesday Tip!

This tip is for you and your team to learn, apply, and improve! Here’s your tip for this week:

How Medical Documentation Shapes Justice in Personal Injury
Part 2: Uniqueness and The Human Side of Traumatic Injury

In PI, documentation isn’t just about data; it’s about the person behind the injury. Go beyond cookie-cutter notes. Show how the injury affects daily life, align exam findings with complaints, and don’t hide pre-existing conditions when context strengthens credibility.
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Stay sharp and get ahead because in PI, the prepared providers always come out on top.

Michael Coates & The PI Made Easy Team

Learn how to document the human side of injury. This post reveals how adding patient stories and unique details to medical records can strengthen a personal injury case.

09/16/2025

🕶️ Ninja Silence isn’t ignoring. It’s not surrender. It’s a pause with purpose.

In PI negotiations, the urge is to keep pushing back with more emails, more calls, more demands. But here’s the truth: every message you send too soon can weaken your leverage.

Silence, used strategically, does two things:
✅ It gives law firms the space to recognize the problem and adjust.
✅ It gives you clarity, composure, and control over your next move.

Sometimes the smartest move isn’t chasing, it’s waiting. And in that pause, real concessions often happen.

Want to dive deeper into how patience, persistence, and timing can transform your PI collections? 📖

👉 Click here to read the full article: https://personalinjurymadeeasy.com/negotiating-with-law-firms-is-a-process-you-can-control/