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Chapter 30: Vocational Services
Billing & Payment Policies for Healthcare Services provided to Injured Workers and Crime Victims
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Effective July 1, 2013
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Note: Vocational services providers must use the codes listed in this chapter to bill for services. Maximum fees apply equally to both State Fund and self-insured vocational services.
Table of contents
Payment policies:
Billing by referral type
Fee caps for vocational services
Special services, nonvocational providers
Additional requirements for all vocational services providers
More info:
Related topics
By report (BR):
A code listed in the fee schedule as "BR" doesn't have an established fee because the service is too unusual, variable, or new. When billing for the code, the provider must provide a report that defines or describes the services or procedures. The insurer will determine an appropriate fee based on the report.
Link: For more information, see WAC 296-20-01002 .
Payment policy: Billing by referral type
Link: For more detailed information on billing, consult the Miscellaneous Services Billing Instructions (F248-095-000), available at: http://www.lni.wa.gov/FormPub/Detail.asp?DocID=1627.
Prior authorization
All vocational services require prior authorization.
Vocational services are authorized by referral type. The State Fund uses six referral types:
- Early intervention,
- Assessment,
- Plan development,
- Plan implementation,
- Forensic, and
- Stand alone job analysis.
Each referral is a separate authorization for services.
How insurers will pay
Insurers will pay:
- Interns at 85% of the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VRC) professional rate, and
- Forensic evaluators at 120% of the VRC professional rate.
Note: All referral types except forensic are subject to a fee cap (per referral) in addition to the maximum fee per unit. For more information, see the payment policy for "Fee caps" later in this chapter.
Services that can be billed
The following several tables show billing codes by referral type.
Early intervention
|Description (1 unit = 6 minutes for all codes)
|Max fee per unit
|Early intervention services (VRC)
|Early intervention services (intern)
|Early intervention services extension (VRC)
|Early intervention services extension (intern)
|Description (1 unit = 6 minutes for all codes)
|Max fee per unit
|Assessment services (VRC)
|Assessment services (Intern)
Vocational evaluation, pre-job and job modification consultation
|Description (1 unit = 6 minutes for all codes)
|Max fee per unit
|Vocational evaluation (VRC)
|Pre-job or job modification consultation (VRC)
|Pre-job or job modification consultation (Intern)
Plan development
|Description (1 unit = 6 minutes for all codes)
|Max fee per unit
|Plan development services (VRC)
|Plan development services (Intern)
Plan implementation
|Description (1 unit = 6 minutes for all codes)
|Max fee per unit
|Plan implementation services (VRC)
|Plan implementation services (Intern)
Forensic services
The VRC assigned to a forensic referral must directly perform all the services needed to resolve the vocational issues and make a supportable recommendation.
Note: Exception: Vocational evaluation services may be billed by a third party, if authorized by the insurer.
|Description (1 unit = 6 minutes for all codes)
|Max fee per unit
|Forensic services (Forensic VRC)
Stand alone job analysis
The codes in the following table are used for stand alone and provisional job analyses. (Also see "Payment limits," below.)
|Description (1 unit = 6 minutes for all codes)
|Max fee per unit
|Stand alone job analysis (VRC)
|Stand alone job analysis (intern)
|Stand alone job analysis (non-VRC)
Travel, wait time, and mileage
The insurer pays for work performed by providers on vocational referrals only from the branch office where the referral was assigned. (Also see "Services that aren't covered," below.)
Providers may bill from the branch office where the referral was assigned by the VRC to necessary destinations. Examples include:
- Going to the location of the employer of record,
- Visiting an attending physician's office, or
- The meeting of a VRC with an injured worker at the worker's home.
Note: For out of state cases, VRC may only bill from the branch office nearest the worker.
|Maximum fee
|Travel/wait time (VRC or forensic VRC) 1 unit = 6 minutes
|Travel/wait time (intern) 1 unit = 6 minutes
|Professional mileage (VRC) 1 unit = 1 mile
|State rate
|Professional mileage (intern) 1 unit = 1 mile
|State rate
|Air travel (VRC, Intern, or forensic VRC)
|By report
|Ferry charges (VRC, intern or forensic VRC)
|By report
|Hotel charges (VRC, intern or forensic VRC) out-of-state only
|By report
Note: See definition of by report in "Definitions" at the beginning of this chapter.
Vocational evaluation and related codes for nonvocational providers
Certain nonvocational providers may deliver the above services with the following codes:
|Maximum fee
|Pre-job or job modification consultation, 1 unit = 6 minutes
|Vocational evaluation, 1 unit = 6 minutes
|Travel/wait (non-VRC), 1 unit = 6 minutes
|Mileage (non-VRC), one unit = 1 mile
|State rate
|Ferry charges (non-VRC) (See "Note" below this table.)
|State rate
Note: Code 0393R requires documentation with a receipt in the case file.
Services that aren't covered
Travel, wait time, and mileage
The insurer doesn't pay for travel time or mileage between two different service locations or branch offices where a provider is working cases.
The insurer pays for travel time and mileage only once per trip, even if there is more than one claim. Charges must be split equally between all the claims.
When billing for travel to and from a service location, branch office or necessary location to provide vocational services for 2 or more claims, follow these instructions:
- Split charges equally between all claims, round to the nearest number if necessary.
- For 2 claims, bill half to each claim.
- For 3 or more claims split the charges accordingly (3 claims = by thirds, 4 claims = by fourths)
Payment limits
Stand alone job analysis
For State Fund claims, this referral type is limited to 15 days from the date the referral was electronically created by the claim manager.
Bills for dates of service beyond the 15th day won't be paid.
Payment policy: Fee caps for vocational services
Fee cap policy for referrals
Vocational services are subject to fee caps.
The following fee caps are by referral. All services provided for the referral are included in the cap.
Note: Travel, wait time, and mileage charges aren't included in the fee cap for any referral type.
|If the description of the fee cap referral is…
|Then the applicable codes are:
|And the maximum fee is:
|Early intervention referral cap, per referral
|Assessment referral cap, per referral
|Plan development referral cap, per referral
|Plan implementation referral cap, per referral
|Stand alone job analysis referral cap, per referral
The fee cap for vocational evaluation services applies to multiple referral types.
|If the description of the fee cap referral is…
|Then the applicable codes are:
|And the maximum fee is:
|Vocational evaluation services cap
How the vocational evaluation fee cap works?
For example, if $698.00 of vocational services is paid as part of an ability to work assessment (AWA) referral, only the balance of the maximum fee is available for payment under another referral type.
Fee cap requirements
Referrals that reach the fee cap
The vocational provider must track costs associated with their referrals to assure the fee cap isn't exceeded.
When a fee cap is reached:
- Vocational providers aren't required to continue to provide services over and above the fee cap without payment,
- Providers must notify the VSS or SIE/TPA of the situation, and
- Providers must continue to deliver services as required by WAC 296-19A until the cap is reached.
Providers must comply with all requirements in WAC 296-19A with regard to closing referrals, including submitting a closing report, even if the claim manager has closed the referral.
Providers shouldn't enter any closure outcome with their closing report. Only the CM can enter the ADM7 closure code for fee cap reached.
Vocational providers must not recommend the claim manager close a referral with an alternative closure code to avoid reaching the fee cap. After closing a referral due to reaching a fee cap, any subsequent referral of the same type may not be assigned to the same vocational counselor.
Link: For more information, see WAC 296-19A.
Early intervention fee cap extension
For early intervention referrals, a provider may request an extension of the fee cap in cases of:
- Medically approved graduated return to work (GRTW), or
- Work hardening (WH) opportunities.
The claim manager must authorize the extension. No other early intervention professional services (for example, services billed using 0800V and 0801V) may be provided once the extension has been approved.
The extension is for 1 time only per claim and doesn't create a new referral.
The extension is limited to a maximum of 20 hours of service over a maximum of 12 weeks.
Providers should submit bills for these services in the same format as other vocational bills.
You may continue to bill for travel/wait, mileage, and ferry charges as normal. Use codes 0802V and 0803V to bill for GRTW and WH services provided during the extension.
|Applicable codes
|Maximum fee
|Extension of early Intervention referral cap, once per claim
Fee cap exceptions for AWAs and Plan Implementation referrals
Exception codes must be used to authorize an extra number of billable hours.
Any use of these exception codes requires prior authorization by the VSS for State Fund claims, or by the SIE/TPA for self-insured claims.
AWA referrals
For AWA referrals, 2 new exception codes are available with an additional fee cap of $891.00.
|Maximum fee
|Assessment services exception (VRC)
|$8.91 per 6 minutes
|Assessment services exception (intern)
|$7.59 per 6 minutes
Plan Implementation referrals
For Plan Implementation referrals, 2 new exception codes are available with an additional fee cap of $2,059.00.
|Maximum fee
|Plan implementation services exception (VRC)
|$8.91 per 6 minutes
|Plan implementation services exception (intern)
|$7.59 per 6 minutes
Fee cap exception request
The vocational provider assigned to the referral may request additional time:
- Within 2 hours ($178.20) of reaching the fee cap (see "Note" below this list),
- Plan must demonstrate that the extra time will allow for resolution of the referral, and
- Referrals must have started on or after January 1, 2008.
Note: Extra time isn't available if the original cap has been reached.
Denial of request
The vocational provider must follow department policy on referrals that reach the fee cap.
Approval of request
The vocational provider may bill the exception code up to the additional cap.
Once the added cap has been reached, the provider exhausts the original fee cap.
Note: Extra time isn't available if the original cap has been reached.
Not complete after fee cap exception
The provider must follow department policy on referrals that reach the fee cap.
Payment policy: Special services, nonvocational providers
Prior authorization
Code 0388R (for special services provided during Assessment Plan Development and Implementation) requires prior authorization.
For State Fund claims, VRCs must contact the vocational services specialist (VSS) to arrange for prior authorization from the claim manager. For self-insured claims, contact the SIE/TPA for prior authorization.
Who must perform these services to qualify for payment
A nonvocational provider can use the R codes. A vocational provider delivering services for a referral assigned to a different payee provider may also use the R codes.
Services that can be billed
L&I established procedure local billing code 0388R to be used for special services provided during Assessment Plan Development and Plan Implementation, such as:
- Commercial driver's license (CDL),
- Pre-employment physical examination
- Background checks,
- Driving abstracts, and
- Fingerprinting.
Code 0388R has a description of "Plan, providers," and pays by report.
Note: See definition of by report in "Definitions" at the beginning of this chapter.
Requirements for billing
Code 0388R must be billed by a medical or a miscellaneous nonphysician provider on a Statement for Miscellaneous Services billing form (F245-072-000 ). The referral ID and referring vocational provider account number must be included on the bill.
As a reminder to vocational providers who deliver ancillary services on vocational referrals assigned to other providers, if the provider resides in a different firm (that is, has a different payee provider account number than you):
- You can't bill as a vocational provider (provider type 68), and
- You must either use another provider account number that is authorized to bill the ancillary services codes (type 34, 52, or 55), or
- Obtain a miscellaneous services provider account number (type 97) and bill the appropriate codes for those services.
These providers use the Statement for Miscellaneous Services billing form, but must include the following specific information to be paid directly for services:
- The vocational referral ID that can be obtained from the assigned vocational provider,
- The service provider ID for the assigned vocational provider in the "Name of physician or other referring source" box at the top of the form, and
- Nonvocational provider's own provider account numbers at the bottom of the form.
Link: The Statement for Miscellaneous Services billing form is available at www.Lni.wa.gov/FormPub/Detail.asp?DocID=1627 .
Payment limits
Code 0388R can't be used to bill for services that are part of a retraining plan (registration fees or supplies) that might be purchased prior to the plan.
For code 0388R, there is a limit of 1 unit per day, per claim.
Payment policy: Additional requirements for all vocational services providers
Inappropriate referral: ADMA billing
Vocational providers may use ADMA outcome "VRC declines referral" for up to 14 days after the referral assignment. This outcome is to be used when VRC determines that the referral isn't appropriate. Examples include:
- Conflict of interest, or
- Not ready for a referral due to medical or other issues.
Prior to entering an ADMA outcome, the VRC needs to contact the claims manager to discuss the reasons for declining the referral.
A maximum of three professional hours may be billed for reviewing the file and preparing a brief rationale, using the standard VCLOS routing sheet.
Preferred worker certification for workers who choose option 2
Vocational providers must consider assisting a worker in obtaining Preferred Worker Certification whenever it is appropriate. This includes a worker who has an approved plan, but has decided to choose option 2.
Vocational providers can bill for assisting workers with obtaining Preferred Worker Certification for up to 14 days after an option 2 selection has been made.
Insurer Activity Prescription Form (APF), 1073M
Only the insurer or VRC can request that a healthcare provider complete an Insurer APF.
For State Fund claims, healthcare providers won't be paid for APFs requested by employers or attorneys. A VRC may request an APF from the provider if clarification or updated physical capacity information is needed or a worker's condition has changed.
Employers can obtain physical capacity information by:
- Using completed APFs available on the department's Claim and Account Center, or
- Requesting an APF through the claim manager when updated physical capacity information is needed.
Link: Visit L&I's Claim and Account Center at: www.Lni.wa.gov/ORLI/LoGon.asp .
Other requests for return to work information
Healthcare providers may bill 1074M for written responses to employer requests regarding return to work issues. Examples include:
- Concurrence with performance based physical capacities evaluation (PBPCE),
- Authorization for worker to participate in PBPCE,
- Job modification or pre-job modification reviews,
- Proposed work hardening program, and
- Plan for graduated, transitional, return to work.
Pre-job and Job Modification Consultation
Services that can be billed
Billable activities for procedure codes 0823V and 0824V are:
- Consultation time with the worker,
- Composing the report,
- Communication,
- Instruction in work practices, and
- When indicated:
- Obtaining bids
- Completing and submitting assistance application packet.
Services dont include performing vocational rehabilitation services as described in WAC 296-19A on claims with open vocational referrals.
Services that can't be billed
Billable services don't include performing vocational rehabilitation services as described in WAC 296-19A on claims with open vocational referrals (except for activities noted in WAC 296-19A-340).
Activities associated with reports (other than composing or dictating complete draft of the report) not billable include:
- Editing, revising, or typing,
- Filing, or
- Distributing or mailing.
Also not billable is time spent on any administrative and clerical activity to include:
- Typing,
- Copying,
- Faxing, mailing, or distributing,
- Filing,
- Payroll,
- Recordkeeping, or
- Delivering or picking up mail.
Vocational evaluation
Vocational evaluation can be used during an assessment referral to help determine a worker's ability to benefit from vocational services when a recommendation of eligibility is under consideration.
Vocational evaluation may also be used during a plan development referral to assist a worker in identifying a viable vocational goal. Vocational evaluation may include:
- Psychometric testing,
- Interest testing,
- Work samples,
- Academic achievement testing,
- Situational assessment, and
- Specific and general aptitude, and skill testing.
When a vocational provider obtains a vocational evaluation, the provider must ensure that the test administration, interpretation, and reporting of results are performed in a manner consistent with assessment industry standards.
Note: When billing for testing services on multipple referrals and/or claims, test administration time must be split equally in whole units, charging the same dollar amount on each claim/referral.
For example: if a provider performs 4.5 hours of group testing for 3 workers, then billing for each worker shouldn't exceed 1.5 hours.
Vocational providers
Vocational providers (provider type 68) must use procedure code 0821V to bill for vocational evaluation services. Use code 0821V for:
- The formal testing itself, or
- A meeting that is directly related to explaining the purposes or findings of testing.
Nonvocational providers
Nonvocational providers must use procedure code 0390R. Bill using the miscellaneous billing form and include the:
- Vocational referral ID obtained from the assigned vocational provider, and
- Service provider ID for the assigned vocational provider in the "Name of the physician or other referring source" box at the top, and
- Nonvocational provider's individual provider account number at the bottom of the form.
For example, a school receives a referral from a VRC for basic achievement testing. After administering the testing, the school must:
- Use the miscellaneous billing form,
- Obtain the vocational referral ID number from the VRC and place on the billing form,
- Obtain the VRC's service provider number and place in the "Name of the physician or other referring source" box at the top, and
- Place the school's provider account number at the bottom of the form.
Retraining plans that exceed statutory benefit limit
The VSS will only approve vocational retraining plans that have total costs and time that are within the statutory retraining benefit limit.
The VSS won't approve a plan with costs that exceed the statutory benefit even if the worker has access to other funding sources. Vocational providers may not develop or submit such a plan.
How multiple providers who work on a single referral bill for services
Multiple providers may deliver services on a single referral if they have the same payee provider account number. This situation might occur when interns assist on referrals assigned to VRCs, or where 1 provider covers the caseload of an ill provider.
When more than 1 provider works on a referral, each provider must bill separately for services delivered on the referral, and each provider must use:
- His/her individual provider account number,
- The payee provider account number, and
- The referral ID.
If several providers work on a single referral, the assigned provider is ultimately responsible for the referral. The performance data associated with that referral accrues to the assigned provider's performance rating.
Split billing across multiple referrals
When a worker has 2 or more open time loss claims, State Fund may make a separate referral for each claim. In cases where State Fund makes 2 (or more) concurrent referrals for vocational services, State Fund will specify if the vocational provider is to split the billing.
When billing for vocational services on multiple referrals and/or claims, follow these instructions:
- Split billable hours over a larger interval of work (up to the entire billing date span), rather than per each single activity,
For example, a provider has 2 open referrals for the same worker. If the provider bills once a week, one approach would be to total all the work done with that worker on both referrals in a day, or in the entire week, then divide by 2.
- Split bills equally, in whole units, charging the same dollar amount on each claim/referral,
- If, after totaling all work done during the billing period, the total isn't an even number of units, round to the nearest even whole number of units, then divide by 2 as directed above.
- If split bills don't contain the same number of units, they will be denied and must be rebilled in the correct format. If there are 3 (or more) claims requiring time loss compensation and vocational services, the vocational rehabilitation bills are to be split accordingly (3 claims = by thirds, 4 claims = by fourths), based on the number of concurrent referrals received.
- These requirements also apply when billing for testing services.
For example, if a provider performs 4.5 hours of testing for a worker with more than one claim and referral, the billing must be split equally among the claims.
Note: Vocational providers must document multiple referrals and split billing for audit purposes.
Referral resolution
A vocational referral initially made to a firm and then assigned to a VRC must close if the same VRC is no longer available to provide services. Referrals made directly to the VRC may be transferred by the claim manager to the VRC's new firm, only if the VRC has already established a relationship with a new firm within the same service location, via the Vocational Provider Account Application process.
Vocational providers must notify the insurer if the VRC assigned to a referral is no longer available to provide services on that referral. Following are guidelines for notifying the insurer:
Guideline 1: Referrals made to the firm and assigned to a VRC
It is the responsibility of the assigned VRC to close the referral on VocLink Connect with the outcome, "VRC no longer available." This outcome must be entered immediately on the VRC's change in status.
It is the responsibility of the vocational manager of the firm to notify the claim manager(s) of the change in status for that referral. State Fund must be notified by telephone and/or fax within 3 working days of the change in status. Notification by the vocational manager isn't necessary if the VRC assigned to the referrals successfully closes the referral as noted above.
Note: The VRC assigned to the referral(s) can't contact the claim manager(s) for the purpose of informing them of a change in employment. This would be considered marketing, which is prohibited by department policy. The resolution of the referral (for example, re-referral) is at the sole discretion of the claim manager.
Guideline 2: Referrals made directly to the VRC
The VRC is responsible for notifying the claim manager of his/her new status, and should be prepared to inform the claim manager of the:
- Payee provider account number of the new firm, as well as
- VRC's new service provider account number associated with that firm.
The claim manager, at his/her sole discretion, may transfer the referral(s) to the VRC at the new firm, provided that the VRC is available to work in the same service location in which the original referral was made.
Appropriate timing of VocLink Connect outcome recommendations for State Fund claims
State Fund has established clear expectations regarding the submission of closing reports at the conclusion of a vocational referral.
Vocational providers use VocLink Connect to enter an outcome recommendation at the conclusion of work on a referral. The VRC must complete the report before a VocLink outcome recommendation is made to State Fund. The paper report should be submitted to L&I at the same time that the outcome recommendation is made. The report is considered part of the referral, which isn't complete until the report is done.
There are some circumstances when an outcome recommendation is made, and no report is required. Examples include "VRC no longer available" and "VRC declines referral."
In all other cases, the paper report must be submitted to State Fund at the same time the recommendation is made.
Submitting a vocational assessment or retraining plan for self-insured claims
Links: Answers to the following questions can be found in various WACs (the specific WAC is noted following each question):
- What is the Self-Insurance Vocational Reporting Form? (WAC 296-15-4302)
- What must the self-insurer do when an assessment report is received? (WAC 296-15-4304)
- When must a self-insurer submit a vocational rehabilitation plan to the department? (WAC 296-15-4306)
- What must the vocational rehabilitation plan include? (WAC 296-15-4308)
- What must the self-insurer do when the department denies the vocational rehabilitation plan? (WAC 296-15-4310)
- What must the self-insurer do when the vocational rehabilitation plan is successfully completed? (WAC 296-15-4312)
- What must the self-insurer do if the vocational rehabilitation plan isn't successfully completed? (WAC 296-15-4314(5))
Change in status: Responsibilities of service providers and firms
Note: Change in status responsibilities apply to both State Fund and Self-Insurance vocational providers.
The insurer must be notified immediately by both the firm and the service provider (VRC or intern) when there is a change in status. Changes in status include:
- VRC or intern ends their association with a firm,
- VRC assigned to a referral is no longer available to provide services on the referral(s), or
- Firm closes.
Notification to L&I requires:
- Resolution of the open referral(s), and
- Submission of the Vocational Provider Change Form(s) to:
Private Sector Rehabilitation Services at L&I
PO Box 44326
Olympia WA 98504-4326
Link: These forms may be found at L&I's vocational services website www.Lni.wa.gov/ClaimsIns/Voc/WorkWithLni/Provider/.
Note: A firm or service provider that fails to notify L&I of changes in status may be in violation of WAC and/or L&I policy. This may result in L&I issuing findings and subsequent corrective action(s) as described in WAC 296-19A-260 and WAC 296-19A-270 .
Link: For more information, see WAC 296-19A-260 and WAC 296-19A-270 .
Approved plan services that occur prior to plan start date
The insurer may cover these are services/fees prior to a plan start date:
- Registration fees billed as retraining tuition (billing code R0310),
- Rent, food, utilities, and furniture rental. Payment for these items may be made up to 29 days prior to a plan start date to allow a worker to move and get settled before training starts.
These services require prior authorization by the insurer.
Bills for services incurred prior to a plan start date won't be paid prior to the date L&I formally approves the plan.
Retraining travel, R0330, isn't payable prior to a plan start date. Travel that occurs prior to a plan start date is generally:
- To a jobsite to evaluate whether a particular job goal is reasonable, or
- To a school to pay for registration, books or look over the campus.
These types of trips aren't part of a retraining plan and should be billed by the worker under V0028. Travel to appointments with the VRC should also be billed under V0028.
Selected plan procedure code definitions
L&I has defined the following retraining codes:
- R0312, Retraining supplies are consumable goods such as:
- Paper,
- Pens,
- CDs, and
- Disposable gloves.
- R0315, Retraining equipment, tools such as:
- Calculator,
- Software,
- Survey equipment,
- Welding gloves & hood,
- Bicycle repair kits, and
- Mechanics tools.
- R0350, Other, includes professional uniforms, including uniform shoes, required for training, and other items that don't fit the more defined categories. Items purchased using R0350 must be for vocational rehabilitation retraining.
The insurer doesn't have the authority to purchase:
- Glasses,
- Hearing aids,
- Dental work,
- Clothes for interviews, or
- Other items as a way to remove barriers during retraining.
Reimbursement for food
The insurer reimburses for food including grocery and restaurant purchases made while the worker is participating in an approved plan.
Food charges combined in weekly or monthly date spans aren't allowed.
Each food purchase must be listed on a separate bill line for each date food is purchased. Receipts are always required for any item(s) purchased by the worker. Copies of receipts are acceptable.
Note: The provider and/or the worker should also retain a copy of receipts.
The vocational provider must review food charges being billed:
- To remove inappropriate items (for example, personal items, alcohol, paper and cleaning products, tobacco, pet food, etc.), and
- To ensure each date of purchase is itemized on the bill.
The worker won't be reimbursed over the monthly allowed per diem amount. It is the vocational provider's responsibility to monitor the bills to ensure the worker doesn't exceed their monthly allotment for food.
The vocational provider will:
- Review the receipts,
- Deduct personal and other noncovered items, and
- Sign the Statement for Retraining and Job Modification Services form (F245-030-000).
Link: The form is available at www.Lni.wa.gov/FormPub/Detail.asp?DocID=1617.
Once the vocational provider signs the Statement for Retraining and Job Modification Services form, the insurer will assume the provider has:
- Reviewed the bill and receipts,
- Removed inappropriate charges, and
- Verified the charges are within the worker's per diem allotment for that month.
Mileage on transportation cost encumbrance
The insurer reimburses mileage only in whole miles.
Calculate mileage point to point, rounding each planned trip up to the nearest whole mile.
Note: Questions regarding completion of the Transportation Cost Encumbrance form should be referred to the VSS.
Links: Related topics
|If you're looking for more information about…
|Then go here:
|Administrative rules
for corrective action for failure
to notify about changes in status
|Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 296-19A-260:
|Administrative rules for
fee caps on vocational services
|Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 296-19A:
|Becoming an L&I provider
|L&I's website:
|Billing instructions and forms
|Chapter 2:
Information for All Providers
|Fee schedules for all
healthcare and vocational services
|L&I's website:
|L&I's Claim and Account Center
|L&I's website:
|Miscellaneous Services
Billing Form and Instructions
|L&I's website:
|Statement for Retraining and
Job Modification form
|L&I's website:
|Submission of the Vocational
Provider Change Form
|L&I's website:
|Submitting a vocational
assessment or retraining plan
for self-insured claims
|What is the Self-Insurance Vocational Reporting Form?
What must the self-insurer do when an assessment report is received?
When must a self-insurer submit a vocational rehabilitation plan to the department?
What must the vocational rehabilitation plan include?
What must the self-insurer do when the department denies the vocational rehabilitation plan?
What must the self-insurer do when the vocational rehabilitation plan is successfully completed?
What must the self-insurer do if the vocational rehabilitation plan isn't successfully completed?
Need more help? Call L&I's Provider Hotline at 1-800-848-0811.
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Just a quick note to say that this morning I braved the -27F cold of Fergus Falls, MN to attend the 49th annual edition of the Minnesota Twins Winter Caravan. I believe the first caravan I ever went to was 2001 (the "Get To Know 'Em" campaign), and I have attended each year since.
Fergus Falls was the first stop of the day for the Twins this time and thus they came to the local Applebees restaurant for a pancake breakfast. Manager Ron Gardenhire, Hitting Coach Joe Vavra, and Starting Pitcher Glen Perkins were the featured guests who cracked jokes, entertained questions, and just had a good time promoting baseball in MN. A highlight video was also shown (always the highlight of the program!) and a prize drawing ended the program (sadly, I was not lucky today).
Overall, the FF stop was just a drop-in on the long line of the caravan, but it was still fun to just get out and get excited about Twins baseball again!!
Oh, and just because I couldn't resist:
Can Spring Training come early enough?!

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The steps for adding a device or PC to a network can vary, depending on the Windows operating system and the type of networking hardware you have. The following steps apply to PCs running Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1. To add a PC running Windows 7 or earlier Windows operating systems, search Help and Support on that PC for "Add a device or computer to a network."
For info on setting up a network, see Set up a wireless router.
With newer routers that support Windows Connect Now (WCN), also called Wi‑Fi Protected Setup (WPS), you can add a PC to the network by following these steps:
Turn on the PC.
Connect to a network by swiping in from the right edge of the screen, tapping Settings (or if you're using a mouse, pointing to the lower-right corner of the screen, moving the mouse pointer up, and then clicking Settings), and then tapping or clicking the network icon ( or ). Tap or click the network you want to connect to, and then tap or click Connect.
Instead of typing a security key or passphrase, press the Wi‑Fi Protected Setup (WPS) button on the router. The router will automatically set up the PC to connect to the network and apply the network's security settings.
Check the packaging of your router to find out if it supports Windows Connect Now (WCN), also called Wi‑Fi Protected Setup (WPS).
Sign in to the PC.
Enter the network security key, passphrase, or user name if you're asked to do so, and then click OK.
To make sure you added the PC, follow these steps:
Sign in to any PC on the network.
Open Network by swiping in from the right edge of the screen, tapping Search (or if you're using a mouse, pointing to the upper-right corner of the screen, moving the mouse pointer down, and then clicking Search), entering network in the search box, and then tapping or clicking Network.
Make sure you see icons for the PC you added and for the other PCs and devices that are part of the network.
If you don't see icons in the Network folder, the Find devices and content slider might be turned off. For more info, see Find PCs, devices, and content on your network.
Plug the PC into a hub, switch, or router and then turn it on. (If your home has Ethernet wiring and you have a jack in the room where the PC is, you can plug the PC into the Ethernet jack instead.)
To add a wireless device to your network, such as a wireless printer or print server, follow these steps:
Turn on the device.
Follow the instructions that came with the device to add it to your network.
To make sure you added the device, follow these steps:
Make sure you see icons for the device. If the device is a printer, you might need to turn on printer sharing so that other PCs on the network can use it. For more info, see Share a printer.
Turn on the device and plug it into one of the following:
A hub,
switch, or router
A PC that's plugged into a hub, switch, or router
The device should now be connected to the network.
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4The link to V4.03 on the first post seems to work again.
However, the ones to V4.06, which look like they've been changed to zol.com.cn, do not. I get a 403 Forbidden error.
I wasn't able to get the files from download page linked above (as opposed to directly to the files as in the first post), but only because I'm at work and gave up after a few false starts---I'll try again tonight.
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Alright, amendments have once more been made to the V4.06 links in the first post. There are manual and automatic downloads for each colour.
Samsung Z5, Sennheiser CX300, Sennheiser HD 201, MediaMonkey, µTorrent, Audio Converter, Samsung Lyrics Station.
i have just tested the 4.06 CN version.
and the only difference to the KR version is, that the CN has NOT the "Display - Font Type" settings
btw: on the first post, the manual and automatic downlads for 4.06 are false linked.
the manual are the automatic and vice versa
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Thanks for the guide. Like others, I found it impossible to put the.rom and .img files into the "root" folder - so created a "Data" folder next to Music etc and put them in there.
Well that worked for me upgrading from 1.04 to 1.09.
I haven't spotted the difference between these versions yet. Does anyone know what's changed?. Perhaps it's just stability - not that I had many problems.
Sorry for the stupid question, but i dont know to flash the K3.
The K3 is now formated, but i cant drag and drop any files to the player (mp3 is ok, but no img and rom).
I need a step by step tut - maybe with screenshot.
And sorry for my bad english...
edit: Yeah, der flash i done!!!
upgrade firmware on yp-k3 jqb/xef
Does anyone knows if the upgrading process to 4.03 & 4.06 works well on a Samsung yp k3j qb/xef ??
I did the mistake to do it with the 4.06 directly and the player freezed (& connected to an XP SP2, it is not well recognized )
Thks !
Edit : Ok, i just have to be patient.. and wait the batteries run out... then at restart it works well...
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I need help.
I had FW 3.50 JN and the updated went well until
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umm this might not b the rite post but is there anyway to de-grade the k3. i dl 4.03 n is there any way i could remove it? i try the reset button but that didnt do anything.
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Da Best now i can fix my k3 becuse it has a blue screen and playes music
Well I got my k3 in today and have played around with the US firmware and the Korean firmware. I like the user EQ, Baseboost, and .ogg support. However, I liked that in the US version you could browse the MP3s by ID3 tags. Why can't they just combine the best parts of each firmware to make 1 great one .
will the UMS still be able to support playlist?.. will it ever be able to support ID3 browsing?.. i like the new features added onto the new v4.06 firmware but i also like the ability to browse through the ID3 tags.. its more organized that way.. so i stick with the v3.05 firmware & hopes samsung release a MTP version which include the new features such as text viewer & fonts changing..
Samsung Z5, Sennheiser CX300, Sennheiser HD 201, MediaMonkey, µTorrent, Audio Converter, Samsung Lyrics Station.
Gave it a try last night...
...and it worked exactly as it said it would based on the first post.
I had a 2GB K3 model with the newest "International" firmware on it.
Had to download the manual patch version because the automatic version said I was up to date and wouldn't allow me to patch.
I actually had a "Data" directory on mine. I had to put the files in there, since the MTP protocol would keep me from putting the firmware files anywhere else. (Not even in root.)
I'm thrilled this worked because one thing I was fearing having to do when I give my system its yearly format-and-reinstall is that the CD that came with my player tried to install much more crap than it needed. It wanted WMP (I nuked it, much prefer Media Player Classic), to install the slow and buggy Samsung MediaStudio, and on top of that it installs a DRM driver (MarkAny ContentSafer (maagent.exe)) that has no uninstall. I had to nuke the DRM Driver by using some system cleaning tools. After I cleaned up all the installed junk, I was left with only the device driver, so it continued to work in Explorer.
MediaStudio never got playlists right on my unit. The other issue I had with the ID3 tag reading is that when the player would list albums or genres... I had tried to use genre and album browsing as an alternative to playlists since I couldn't get them to work... Only that grouping tracks by genre and album resulted in many duplicated entries. Example:
I had tracks that were labeled artist's name for the album... just to easily group together tracks by all artists, or by type of music (pop, punk, electro, etc) I'd get a listing like this when I browsed by album:
The Black Dog
The Cure
the time before
The Black Dog
The Cure
the time before
The Cure
the time before
The Cure
the time before
The Cure
the time before
The Cure
the time before
With only -some- of the tracks in each of the albums I had listed in the ID3 tags. Suppose I had 30 total tracks for "The Cure" as album. 3 would be in the first line the name appears, another 4 in the next line it appears, maybe 2 in the next, one in the next, 7 in the next... (I used tag and rename so there were NO variations on spelling or formatting for that field) - I never bothered with ID3 based sorting, so having a flat file list with folders is a major plus for me.
(As an aside: I think the reason why there is no ID3 tag based sorting/browsing in the UMS version is because when files were copied over from MTP, a database was updated on the unit itself that carried the pre-generated sorting information. This is also how the iPod works, it uses a DB instead of a flat file list. So yes, I'm afraid that dumping MTP and going UMS will lose your ID3 tag browsing abilities is an -expected- trade off. Proprietary file transfer protocols can include behaviours invisible to the user, like updating a Database or generating information for the DB before the file is copied, that you wouldn't be able to really do with a drag-and-drop action that only copies a file to a location as with UMS.)
The other nice change is that you're expanded from 5 to 10+1 EQ options. VERY nice. (Having a custom EQ field is absolutely tops!)
USB/UMS Mode works perfectly. There was NO need for MTP, makes me wonder why they even bothered trying to sell a crippled version of a very nice product to other countries.
Other observations:
Volume seems louder since the firmware update. Every time you turn on the unit, the volume defaults to about half. Now it defaults to just under half... and now when I increase the volume, I don't have it nearly as high as I used to.
I'm kind of missing the "Vocal" EQ setting, since that made nighttime listening before sleep a bit easier on my ears. R&B seems closest.
The firmware also causes the background when the clock is displayed to "throb"... very cool.
As previously noted: Font options. Kinda neat, but I stuck with the default.
Text Mode is new for the firmware as opposed to the International version. I never had text reading mode when I got the player until now.
When I did the update, it defaulted to English despite having used the Korean firmware... I was rather surprised, but pleased.
Someone mentioned that this firmware prevented people from listening to the unit when plugged in via USB. I never was able to listen to anything on the unit when it was plugged in with the MTP Firmware... so no loss there. I WAS concerned about the comment, so I gave it a try by plugging the unit into a wall-wart to USB (power only) adapter and it recharged and played music like before. So, in other words, no difference with that as far as I can tell.
With the new firmware: Copying files to the unit causes the graphics to flicker like an activity light. When I updated ID3 tags on files on the player itself, it certainly did flicker erratically, so yes, it is a true activity flicker as opposed to an animation.
Oh, and you can mix or match the themes if you want. I had a black/blue unit and decided to throw Red onto it. Works just fine. (And red is better for night vision) Plus the "fire" looking graphic EQ is very spiffy looking.
One of the only remaining caveats that I have with the product is: Random/Shuffle mode isn't very random. Despite having 430+ songs on the unit, I still hit a duplicate within a new listening session every 5th song or so.
MTP was the most bitter issue I had with using the K3... and now that that's been solved, I don't miss my old Creative Nomad one bit.
Hope this explains a few things for folks wondering what to expect.
Overall, updating the firmware was absolutely worth it to me. Very pleased with the results.
Sorry for being a complete noob, but I just put the files in the "DATA" directory, then turned the K3 on. I got the "no room delete 18mb" thing. Then I plugged it back into the computer and try to format it again in Samsung Media Studio. But I am getting this message:
"Could not format this drive. Please close the disk utility or other programs that are using the drive. Make sure that there is no window showing the content of the drive and then try reformatting again."
But all I have is this thread in Mozilla Firefox and the SMS on, nothing else. Please help.
Thank you,
Hi, you can try also this metodh, click right key by mouse to player icon in menu MY COMPUTER and choose formating.
Thank you, but my computer wasn't even detecting the K3 after. It was not in "My Computer" anymore. I decided to go exchange it for a new one, and if I can't get it to work, then I will just refund it altogether.
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The 2009 All Points West Music and Arts Festival in New Jersey's Liberty State Park was kinda like an open-air high school lunchroom where shaggy rockers, glittery rappers, and freewheeling artsy kids all held court in their respective corners. Spotty showers soaked the first day of the weekend-long festival which left dedicated (a.k.a. fool-headed) fans tramping through glutinous mud to the sounds of Vampire Weekend, The Knux and Peanut Butter Wolf. The Pharcyde rocked loopy hits like "Runnin'" and "Passin' Me By." The original line-up was in full effect – including a formerly dreadlocked Tre sporting an appropriately Jersey Corleone hat – and showed love to J. Dilla by playing Slum Village jams like "Raise It Up." Q-Tip deployed his trademark energy, grooving through Tribe's hits and busting out a quirky yet charming cover of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature."


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18 ct. gold and diamonds. Stunning. Brilliance of the Sun necklace and Angel of the Night pendant
O.C. Tanner has a strong history with the German jeweler, being the first US jewelry company to welcome Wellendorff to the US market. So, it's pretty fitting for them to showcase the new collection.
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Art Garfunkel: I have nothing prepared, but I have a very full heart, and a total identification with rock and roll, and the history of rock and roll. It's mic height - that's what split up this group. So, although I never felt like much of a joiner in any group, I would wear the t-shirt that says Rock and Roll any day, and have been wearing it most of my life, and I'm very happy that there's going to be this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I think it's one of the great pockets of genuineness in the American culture, and it has my total credibility, and there's not too many of those things around. And I can't tell you how much fun it was to make those records all those years. I want to share the fullness I feel with, you don't have a career without a manager who helps you, and gets you touring and puts you on the road, and I have great sentiments of sharing this with Mort Lewis. A great sense of sharing it with the guy who was in the studio when we first did our audition record for CVS, and when it all worked so well, and they signed us, we said, "We love that guy, and we want to work with him on every record we make," and we did, and never did a day's work during those Simon & Garfunkel years without Roy Halley. I want to thank God for giving me this voice; it's been a lot of fun having it. And I want to thank most of all the person who has most enriched my life by putting these great songs through me, my friend Paul here.
Paul Simon: Well, Arthur and I agree about almost nothing, but it's true, I have enriched his life quite a bit, now that I think about it. Arty had the best voice in the neighborhood. It was SRO at his bar mitzvah, actually. He could have done a whole other show and still made it. We fell in love with rock and roll when we were 12 years old, 13 years old, when there was one station in New York, WINS. And used to hear this music - I mean, one song would be Ray Charles, "Hallelujah, I love Her So," and then it would be Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line," and then it would be Frankie Lymon and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," and then Carl Perkins, and then maybe Ruth Brown, and the Moonglows, and the Penguins, Joe Turner blues - I mean, a diversity - a rich diversity of music that would be impossible to hear on any format radio today. And so, in a way, we used our imagination to fill in what was the connection between all of this music. And we were so taken with this idea, that it became the dominant interest in our lives, and to this day it's still fascinating - the music, writing music, making records. I'm very grateful that for all of this time in my life, I've never been bored. It's been a thing that's sustained both of us. This is really a blessing for us. We used to take the D-Train from Queens, and we would go and audition for record companies. The E and the F train. Well, you don't have to be so smug about it. And then when we were 15 years old, we made this record, and it became a big hit. Alan Freed played it every night. It cost $200 a week and the publishing on the next song. We thought it was a great deal, and to this day, I still think it was a very, very good deal. Thanksgiving Day, 1957, we appeared on American Bandstand, and the kids actually did say "I like it, I like a lot, you can dance to it, I give it a 95." The other act on the show that day was Jerry Lee Lewis, and he was better than us, that particular day. That was our only hit in the '50s, and then we had a real argument, and we broke up - thereby setting a pattern that we were to reiterate in the years to come. We got back together again in 1964 when Goddard Lieverson [?] signed us to Columbia Records, and we owe Goddard our thanks for that, and also for the fact that he interceded on our behalf, and stopped the A&R department from naming our group Catchers in the Rye. And he allowed us to use our real names, something which would have been an impossibility in the '50s, for somebody to use names that were so ethnically identifiable as Simon & Garfunkel. We owe Goddard a great deal of thanks for that. Art mentioned our manager Mort Lewis and Roy Halley, sustaining our careers. Mort was smart, he was hip - he introduced us to Dave Brubeck, to Paul Desmond, to Lenny Bruce - couldn't have had a better manager. Roy Halley was a genius in that. In fact, all our years at Columbia Records were really blissful, under Clive Davis, and even under Walter Yednikov's [?] rule, things were really fine for us. It was, I don't know, it seems like, "The Sound of Silence," and "Scarborough Fair," and "The Graduate," and "Mrs. Robinson," and "The Boxer," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," wooosh, then it was gone, it was over. And we just walked away from it, actually, like, "Well, that was one thing that we did, we'll go and do another thing," because we were so young that we didn't realize that that was the trip of a lifetime that we were on. And aside from the fact that, well, musically, we always had our differences, we had such a good time together, we used to laugh so much. We loved that we could rent cars, and drive to play in colleges, and take those towels, and stuff them into the cracks of the door, and light up those hidden reefers; and maybe the bed had that machine where you could put a quarter in and, like, be vibrated. It was great. I was with my oldest and my best friend; couldn't have had a better time. And then we had an argument, and then we had an argument, and... Like, once we were riding to this show, and we got into such a screaming argument about the war in Vietnam. One of us was in favor of it. Uh, yeah. We had a big fight about the eleventh song on the Bridge Over Troubled Water album. Art wanted to do a Bach fugue, and I wanted to do a song I had written called "Cuba, Si, Nixon, No." We compromised, and there was no eleventh song on the album. We came back together again in 198, in Central Park, and it was one of the most extraordinary evenings of our lives. But when we walked off stage, I mean, as we finished the last song of the encore, and we walked off, on the steps of the set, I turned to Arty and I said, "What do you think? How did we do?" and he said, "Disaster." Overview was never our strong suit.
Garfunkel: Well, I just didn't think we hit a musically strong standard, that's all.
Simon: Well, you were absolutely right. So how could I be happier than to be inducted into the Hall of Fame with my oldest pal, and we can join those other happy couples: Ike and Tina Turner, the Everly Brothers, Mick and Keith, Paul and all of the other Beatles, and maybe they'll have a separate wing for all of us. Probably be completed in time for the Eagles to be in it. Thank you very much.


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The magazines "meisterheft", "CHECKHEFT" and "autoPILOT" provide information for drivers in a format that is fresh, interesting and easy to understand. They are published three times a year by ATR SERVICE GmbH for its concept partners with the aim of strengthening the workshop brands Meisterhaft and AC AUTO CHECK and the dealer brand autoPARTNER. The magazines keep customers of the partner companies up to date with issues relating to cars, driving and workshops. Technical topics, such as particulate filters and driver assistance systems, are explained so they can also be understood by people with less experience. Travel reports, cultural tips, puzzles and anecdotes provide for high quality entertainment. Communication Consultants redesigned the magazines at the start of 2008 and now supervises the publication process, taking in everything from the identification of suitable topics to design and editorial work and print supervision. Articles are researched and photographed in cooperation with and at the workshops to underline their professionalism. Owners have the option of personalizing their magazines by adding their own editorial, for example.
Service: Customer magazine
Target groups: Drivers, customers of ATR concept partners
Total circulation: 340,000
Frequency of publication: 3 times a year
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Heated Debate in the Heartland
How Political Pit Bulls Distort Scientific Debate
During our school days, the kids who stayed late in the library or the science labs were often sneered at. It's not much different today, although it now depends on which side of the political aisle one sits. At issue are those who have devoted their lives to study of climate science.
Honest people disagree over the central causes behind global warming and whether it is a man-made phenomenon. Unfortunately, the public discussion has not been held to a higher standard; rather, it has devolved into the political mud pits with each side's pit bulls taking center stage. Stated differently, the political hacks have infiltrated the debate on behalf of their high-paying clients.
Case-in-point: The Chicago-based Heartland Institute, which has been exposed. True, a true-believer conned a secretary at the think tank into "resending" a list of the organization's donors and political objectives. The scientist, who has since gotten a scolding from his peers, disseminated the confidential information. But at this point, the story is less about how the documents were obtained and much more about how the Heartland operates.
The group is at the forefront of trying to negate the alleged effects and causes of global warming. It bankrolls those scientists who will support its premise. One such professional is Craig Idso, who gets $11,600 a month from the Heartland Institute. That is over-and-above what he gets from his day-job. Idso, who says that the money does not influence his findings, never divulged this critical fact.
As for the Heartland Institute, it is acknowledging the heartfelt emotions on both sides but says that it simply cannot condone the methodologies used by its opponents. It never said such a thing, however, when some computer hackers wormed their way into the Climatic Research Unit of University of East Anglia in Britain and stole 1,000 emails. That led to the whole "ClimateGate" episode in which some private conversations were twisted and then used as propaganda.
"Observations throughout the world have led to overwhelming consensus among scientists that global warming is occurring and is the result of human activities," says Jennifer W. Harden, research soil scientist and a 30-year Bio-geochemist with U.S. Geological Survey, in a talk with this reporter. "The scandal is the theft and distribution of private emails, and not their contents."
Smear Campaigns
Science should trump politics. To that end, the National Academy of Sciences released a survey in 2010 asking 1,372 highly acclaimed climatologists whether climate change is caused by the burning of excessive fossil fuels or whether it is natural occurring. Ninety-seven percent of them fingered the human factor.
People of goodwill have legitimate disagreements as to whether the warming trend is either urgent or man-made. This debate also comes down to whether citizens think it a wise use of public resources to promote the development of newer but less proven green technologies at the expense of minted but less environmentally-friendly ones.
Those who tend to advance the coming of the next-generation economy are in favor of this re-allocation of resources. Conversely, those who say that the earth's warming is natural are insisting that billions will be wasted trying to fix a problem that does not exist.
Fair enough. But the bloodhounds -- through graft and smear campaigns -- have confused the debate. Some politicos and their paid consultants are taking positions because they are trying to curry political or financial favor with certain constituencies.
As such, the Center for Responsive Politics is reporting that the coal industry gives 73 percent of its money to Republicans while giving the rest to sympathetic Democrats. Oil and gas interests, meantime, give 75 percent to Republicans. Is it a coincidence that the two parties are taking opposing views on global warming?
"Our current budget includes funding for high-profile individuals who regularly and publicly counter the alarmist (global warming) message," says a Heartland document.
Public policy debate is healthy. Politicizing the field of science is not. Even if one accepts that global warming is less than "urgent" and more like "uncertain," slamming the door and hoping for the best is untenable. The proper tack is not to drown out or demonize the other's position. It is, instead, to listen carefully to what their solutions are — and to incorporate a practical path forward that heads off a potential problem in a cost-effective manner.
Hopefully all sides will heed the message, especially the Heartland Institute.
EnergyBiz Insider is the Winner of the 2011 Online Column category awarded by Media Industry News, MIN. Ken Silverstein has also been named one of the Top Economics Journalists by Wall Street Economists.
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L' Affaire Heartland
Ken –
I think there are a few important contextual issues missing from the discussion of the Heartland Affair:
1) Gleick's defenders significantly understate the criminality of what happened in this situation. With the CRU-email situation, the best evidence is that they were leaked through incompetence: evidence suggests that someone (probably a system administrator based on the file structure) left a giant file prepared for FOIA submission on an open website, and it was snatched up and parceled out. If anything, this was close to whistle-blowing: the person did not put their name in the data (in a self-important way), and in fact released a memo suggesting a clear whistle-blowing mentality in the second round of revelations. With the Heartland papers, you have wire-fraud, and various other clear-cut crimes, AND the personal information (such as compensation levels) of many regular working-stiffs were released to the public.
2) Most people, I would guess, completely misunderstand the nature of libertarian/free-market/free-enterprise think tanks, and the people who work in them or for them. The best way to understand the institutions is as free-enterprise champions, or alternately, people who hate initiative-coercion. Virtually all such groups view coercion as a fundamental wrong, and focus on what they see as abuses of government power (including cronyism) because only the government can legally use coercive power.
These groups were founded, and are largely supported by people who think government power is a dangerous thing requiring constant observation and containment. Their only legal tactic is persuasion based on principled argumentation. Not only is coercion illegal to them, it's largely illegal for them to even attempt to sway a decision-maker's vote whatsoever. That's considered lobbying, which is illegal for a 501c3 organization.
3) The people who work for think tanks are not, by and large, driven by the pursuit of wealth: Almost everyone I know in the think tank world could make far more money in the private for-profit sector or government than they do in the non-profit world. They are not driven by money, they are driven by ideas. They are attracted to think tanks because they share the broad set of values, and want to team up with like-minded people to have greater impact. None of the people mentioned in the Heartland memo are going to get rich given what Heartland was paying them! I would guess that the AVERAGE player on any professional sports team makes more in salary than the top-tier workers at free-market think tanks.
4) The dread "climate skeptics" cited as working for Heartland were mostly doing little more than contract technical writing or paid public speaking. There is absolutely nothing "questionable" about paying someone to summarize a few dozen highly technical articles, to explain basic scientific principles, to do technical editing, or whatever. They were not lobbying the government, and their positions in the government had little or nothing to do with influencing climate policy.
Tell me if these things would be wrong:
- Over time it's discovered that a drug company's claims regarding a drug were not accurate. While most doctors stick by the drug, others try to point to the drug's bad side-effects. Is it wrong for a consumer-health group to pay the doctors to write up a layman's summary of the literature they claim shows bad side-effects are larger than the drug companies claim?
- Someone discovers that a car company has been covering up an issue regarding brake failures. Most supporters of the industry (who are tied to it in some way) argue that such claims are overblown, or only found in "one or two studies," etc. A few independent engineers, who work in related areas (but not directly on brakes) get interested, dust off their engineering training, do some studies on their own, and conclude that the brakes really are bad. They're hired by an consumer-safety group to write up their findings, and explain them to lay audiences, testify to legislators, etc.
Finally, I've heard some people say that they only care about this from a standpoint of "transparency." There are problems with this claim.
1. 1. The rationale is insincere. Activists want think tanks and others to reveal the name of their donors and the amounts given so they can use that information to suggest that the authors are essentially unprincipled mercenaries, not simply for the sake of having all the cards on the table.
2. The rationale is discriminatory. Nobody asks government workers to qualify exactly what share of their government income stems from the promotion of a given idea, or suggests that they are unprincipled mouthpieces. Instead, whistleblower laws promote the idea that government workers are highly ethical people who will oppose wrong-doing by their own paymasters.
Reporters aren't assumed to represent advertisers (though we know they have avoided outing major advertisers in the past). Environmentalists aren't assumed to represent cronies or special interests (though we know they have, and they do), but anyone from right-of-center is assumed to be a sock-puppet for evil megacorps if they take a dime from anyone. It's as if we're the one group of people who are supposed to work for free. Though, if we were rich enough to do that, they'd just slander us for being rich. It's a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't sorta thing.
3. Giving out this data would enable violence. The people wanting the data have dubious records of lawfulness. The left has shown it will use violence in a way the right does not: the Tea Parties were peaceful, Occupy was not. The right might protest, but they don't surround people's houses, and terrorize their wives and children. If violence or destruction happens, they're mortified. The left takes pride in social violence and erect monuments to it leaders: violent labor strikes, violent protests, violent tactics such as eco-terrorism and animal-rights terrorism, violence against property (pouring paint on people wearing furs; assaulting conservatives with "pies" and eye-injuring buckets of glitter), etc. Given overt calls for violence by the left, giving out the names of those who support free-market think tanks would be a bit like giving out the home address of the relatives of people testifying against the mafia.
And Obama is a Kenyan islamofascistzionist Trotskyite...
It's bafling that the Heartland "Institute" gets treated as credile in the real world. It was originally founded to churn out "scientific" reports that claimed there was no scientific basis for the assertion that smoking was hazardous to health. They are one of many faux insittutes used to generate specious information for a price.
And that WSJ op-ed by the 16 "scientists"... none study climate, most are retired oil company people. One, the former astronaut Schmidt, was laughed out of New Mexico for these views when his name came up for a cabinent position with the new governor. Another case of "If 16 experts say it isn't so, then we can ignore the thousands that are telling us differently." Similar to the canard you hear f"It's incredibly cold in Miami, guess that means this global warming stuff is bunk."
There was nothing faked abut the emails released from East Anglia, and there was absolutely nothing shown to indicate a conspiracy or a fraud or a different conclusion regarding climate change, despite how things were spun by those who took things out of context. All that was revealed was the pettiness and backbiting that goes on in most academic environments.
The positions of the deniers are so cliched there's even an iPhone app that keeps track of them. The simplest research on any right wing climate headline usually reveals contortions, spin, misrepresentation by the usual suspects.
What we have is a lobbying syndicate that identified a strategy to engage the extreme right: exploit their creeping socialism and one world government paranoia. Global climate rules are part of the plot to have us all under one global socialist government! It's a conspiracy of scientists motivated only by their need to get more funding (pity the poor fossil fuel industry up against such financial might!).
And its deja vu all over again. We went through a nearly identical set of circumstances over sulfur emissions and cap and trade. Exact same players funding the anti's, exact same arguments: junk science; it will cause utility bills to skyrocket; there's no such thing as acid rain; it will kill the ecoomy. Of course, none of that happened and SO2 cap and trade has worked fine for 25 years. The big difference is that there was no internet then and there was no collection of entertainers pushing an agenda on TV and radio.
The real debate that needs to happen is whether or not there is anything that can be done about carbon emissions; if there is what are the proper measures to take; and what can we afford. Instead we are forced to contend with this moronic debate over whether or not the earth is warming due to human activity with a terminally gullible group unwilling to accept anything that conflicts with their ideology.
And Obama is .....
The last paragraph in the above describes, I believe, the very crux of the matter, and I quote:
"The real debate that needs to happen is whether or not there is anything that can be done about carbon emissions; if there is what are the proper measures to take; and what can we afford."
Yes, there are things that have already been done. There are practical solutions out there, and some can actually earn money as they reduce greenhouse gas and criteria emissions. One technology in particular is entirely non-disruptive – it can work together with any other means of GHG mitigation. It is technically feasible, proven by precise engineering calculation, and it appears to be commercially viable. Most importantly, it is affordable.
So, what is preventing these solutions from being accepted and put into practice as of this moment?
Leaving aside voluminous rhetoric and arguments stemming from many points of view, it is my opinion that it all boils down to a single problem. We have come to disbelieve much of what we see and hear. Hype, disinformation, half-truths, and misinformation all conspire to undermine communication, from scientific pronouncements through to the expression of opinions. Even statements of proven fact become tainted and prone to distrust. The outcome is a natural and understandable reluctance to take actions that cannot be defined or quantified in a verifiable form.
We know and accept that, arithmetically at least, two plus two equals four. The truthfulness of the statement no longer depends on who says it. The result is fact, a concept that is fundamental to the disciplines of science and engineering.
On the other hand, the heading of the comment I am responding to is an opinion, and all opinions deserve to be heard. It can be taken in any number of ways, but its interpretation now depends mightily upon who expressed it. Since it could easily be skewed in one way or another, it is imprecise and cannot be relied upon as fact nor can it be taken as such.
Pervasive skepticism is the real enemy we all face as we attempt to resolve our energy issues. We should question and challenge what we read, walking around the subject matter to gain as many different perspectives as possible before arriving at sound conclusions. At the very least we might learn something new; the art of debate, perhaps?
Alan E. Belcher.
Nice Article, Ken
Thank you, Ken, for once again taking on a difficult issues and taking a balanced approach to it. I totally agree with your notion that this issue has been way too politicized. I have never understood why people from a particular party would pay less attention to science and to so strongly let their political views influence their interpretation of science. I also agree that both parties do this theough maybe to different degrees.
Honest Political Debate?
For me, the most telling aspect is the abhorrence on the man-induced change side to all things nuclear. According to them 'the sky is falling', but nuclear power is off the table. I think that position speaks volumes about hidden agenda, i.e. I think this is about funneling funds to green industries who give predominantly to Democrats.
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"Fake but accurate" rides again.
Paging Dan Rather.
Try a bit of alternative reading rather than just IPCC reports
Try reading Climate of Extremes and Climate Coup for a bit of rebuttal to the IPCC Report on Global Climate Change. Those books contain some well-referenced information that refutes some of the IPCC work and specifically points out some of the data manipulation used by the IPCC authors. These books also address information that certainly questions the allegations of "unprecedented" climate/weather events supposedly occuring now.
If I remember correctly, I read that the National Academy of Sciences 2010 survey mentioned in the article was conducted at a conference on global climate change. Hardly a random survey.
My principal problem with the subject is not as much the argument about global climate change as much as the reaction to the IPCC report which is a call for OECD countries to invest vast sums of money into generation technologies that have not been fully developed thereby wasting the money of its citizenry, either through doling out of taxpayer dollars as production tax credits or cash grants or through feed-in-tariffs or other things that result in causing businesses to uproot and move to China and India and other countries that are building coal-fired powerplants without environmental mitigation. The green technologies being invested in so heavily are so variable and so indispatchable that they must be fully backed up with fossil power, much of which is of low efficiency due to the fact it older plants kept in service or simple cycle gas turbine plants. The government enforced proliferation of wind and solar is distorting the energy market making investment in newer, more efficient, and cleaner operating facilities an unattractive proposition. The net impact of green investment has been zero reductiion in worldwide CO2 emissions and increased emission of SOx, NOx and other toxic materials.
Survey cited is not exactly a good statistical measure
"To that end, the National Academy of Sciences released a survey in 2010 asking 1,372 highly acclaimed climatologists whether climate change is caused by the burning of excessive fossil fuels or whether it is a natural occurrence."
I believe that survey was sent to persons who were published in a few select journals and magazines that tend to promote a strong anthropogenic climate change message. This was not a random survey of climatologists.
It is not even close to a good statistical measure.
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It is unfortunate that this possibly extremely important issue was strongly politicized early on.
The Wall Street Journal carried an opinion piece Tuesday February 21, 2012 "The Not-So-Vast Conspiracy" lending credence to the position that the strong influence peddling is actually done by the AGW supporters.
The fact remains that the knowledge and models of the workings of the atmosphere are simply too weak to justify the enormous expense fostered upon the public. Perhaps an apt description of the current state of affairs can be found in Hans Christian Andersen "The Emperors New Clothes"
Yes. Really.
Ad hominem attacks and argument from authority aren't very convincing.
The globe has both warmed and cooled previously, on multiple occasions. For most of these historical occurrences, we can state definitively that human activity was not a major cause, or even any contributor to the cause. Science really does not understand the mechanisms which caused the historical warming and cooling events. However, science claims to understand the cause of the current, though now paused, warming event. Their claim is largely based on data that aren't and models that don't.
For some interesting observations on the "scientific process" underway to prepare AR5:
The Global Warming Scam
A little correction to the blanket analogy
I am not an expert on radiant energy however, from what I understand, objects appear a certain color because they reflect the energy in the particular wave-length band(s) that are characteristic of the color. The remaining radiant energy is absorbed and typically causes the object to heat up. GHGs are essentially transparent to visible light so do not really blanket the Earth effectively from these. Thus the Earth absorbs varying amount of visible light, depending upon the color of the soil, plants etc. and heats up. Reradiation of that heat is in the form of invisible (to the human eye anyway) infrared which is not virtually transparent to GHGs. This infrared energy heats up the GHGs and they reradiate the energy, some into space and some back to the Earth.
I do not agree with the IPCC report conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 is the principal cause of global climate change but mankind does make a contribution--just the amount of heat released by exhaust gases, cooling of condensers and other hot items related to energy production, forest destruction, and simply living and breathing.
My primary argument is that our rush to green energy is being done very expensively due to the present level of development of these technologies. The PTCs and cash grants given to these industries are distorting energy markets--particularly electrical energy markets--thereby destroying market drivers to more efficient energy technology. The result is that the backup energy required by the green technologies because of lack of dispatchability and of the high variability of these technologies is not resulting in decreased CO2 emissions. The fact that China, India and the other developing countries are using the GHG ploy to artificially hamper industry in the developed countries while they build coal-fired power facilities at a rate that is astounding means that, worldwide, the results of the green energy drive has been to hamper OECD economies while driving manufacturing and other industries into countries that are now pouring out more CO2 than OECD countries cut back. The rush to green has reordered the world economy in favor of a group of countries that could care less about helping others cope with natural or manmade disasters, epidmics of diseases, and other catasthrophic events.
Mark Wooldridge
"Facts" not in evidence
This post assumes several facts not in evidence and merely adds to the political heat.
First, there is currently no basis on which to assert that the Climategate e-mails were "hacked", or that their release was an illegal act. The British authorities are attempting to determine the "who" and "how", but have not yet done so. There remains a very real possibility that the Climategate e-mails were "leaked" by a frustrated insider. There is also the possibility that they were "parked" on a publicly accessible FTP site and then publicly accessed.
Second, there is no proof that the content of the Climategate e-mails was distorted, though the authors, for obvious reasons, claim that they were. The authors claimed a lack of context, which has since been provided through the release of the Climategate 2 e-mails. In context, there is clear evidence of attempts to skew and frustrate the peer review process, to avoid releases of data required by Freedom of Information laws in both Britain and the US. There is clear evidence of efforts to destroy the careers of skeptics. There are clear acknowledgements that the science is hardly as "settled" as the scientists' public utterances would indicate.
Third, there is no indication, to my knowledge, that any of the materials released in Climategate 1 & 2 were "fake".
However, it is already admitted that the internal Heartland documents were obtained fraudulently. Your "true believer" has admitted that publicly. Those documents do not reveal any nefarious or illegal activity by Heartland.
In addition, there is a very high probability that the the "strategy document" released by your "true believer" is a "fake", rather than a document stolen from Heartland.
You might consider doing a search for users of the terms "denier", "anti-science", "climate zombies", etc. You should get lots of hits.
The argument today is not about whether climate has changed in the past, is changing now, or will change in the future. There is little argument that there has been some human influence in the changes which have been occurring more recently. The issue today is the extent of the human influence; and, the sensitivities and forcing factors acting in the environment.
What we do know is that the quality of the data collected and used by the climate science community is uncertain, at best, and unusable without adjustments. What we also know is that the global climate models have a relatively limited skill at reconstructing past climate changes during the period of the instrument record; and, have demonstrated relatively limited skill in predicting the climate changes which have occurred since they were developed. None predict the current pause in global warming.
These GCMs represent a very shaky basis on which to justify the investment of roughly $30 trillion in the US, or roughly $150 trillion globally, to transition to a carbon free economy, especially on an urgent basis.


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Let's Begin Again with Patients First -- By Rep. Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06) @RepTomPrice, Feb. 10, 2014
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How's that Obamacare thing working out for you?!? Not too well. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office recently announced Obamacare will lead to the equivalent of 2.5 million fewer full-time workers by 2024. The president's signature domestic policy will incentivize folks to work less. As disappointing as that is, the fact that the Obama Administration and its allies in Congress are claiming this as a victory for America is disturbing.
Of course, this is to be expected. After all, the White House spin machine has been in overdrive ever since Obamacare came online last year. The law's unveiling – replete with every imaginable and, in some cases, unbelievable incompetence – has been a deafening and defining indictment of not just the Obama Administration's governing abilities but it's governing philosophy.
At the time this law was drafted, that philosophy professed an abundance of faith in the ability of Washington bureaucrats to manage the nation's health care system. As that faith has been shown to be grossly misguided, the Administration is now usurping congressional authority and seeking to rewrite the law through executive fiat. In both cases, the American people and their personal health care choices are being harmed.
Inside the Washington Beltway, much of the talk is on how detrimental the failings of Obamacare may be for the political lives of the law's supporters. But it's the lives and livelihoods of the American people that are suffering the most. We have folks all across the country losing their health care coverage and access to the physicians they knew and trusted. Premiums have skyrocketed – taking more money out of the pockets of hard-working families.
When confronted with the real harm that real Americans are experiencing under Obamacare, the White House and its allies defend the mess they created by claiming their critics do not have any solutions of their own. Nonsense! Conservatives have for years been offering positive health system solutions that would put patients, families and doctors in charge of health care decisions, not Washington.
Specifically, for the past three Congresses, I have introduced the Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 2300). It is a patient-centered solution that would repeal the president's health care law – its taxes, mandates, and bureaucratic control and command – and replace it with reforms that expand access to quality, affordable health care choices for more Americans. Through tax deductions, credits, refundable credits and advanceable refundable credits, the Empowering Patients First Act would make it so individuals and families have the financial feasibility to purchase the health care coverage they want for themselves – not that Washington forces them to buy.
Our plan tackles the real health care challenges of portability and pre-existing conditions. Folks ought to own their health care coverage so they can take it with them if they change jobs or lose a job. Those who are just now entering the workforce will have, on average, upwards of 12 to 15 jobs throughout their careers. They don't need to necessarily have as many different health care plans. H.R. 2300 would make portability of coverage a key component in empowering individuals to have a sense of security and peace of mind.
Just as important, we agree that no one should be priced out of the insurance market if they have a bad injury or diagnosis. Government mandates are not the solution. They simply distort the health insurance market. Our better solution is to provide for robust pooling mechanisms that give folks the opportunity to join together and gain the purchasing power of millions so no one individual's adverse health status makes coverage unaffordable for them or others. Again, this type of solution invests greater power in the hands of patients and families, not Washington.
For years, the rising cost of health care has meant less money in the pockets of American families. We have to do more to address this underlying challenge. The Empowering Patients First Act does so in a myriad of ways. For example, by allowing the purchase of health insurance across state lines, we force insurance companies to really compete for your business.
Then there is the practice of defensive medicine that is driving up the costs of care. One study by Jackson Healthcare estimated that one third of health care dollars are spent in the practice of defensive medicine – roughly $800 billion annually to protect physicians from lawsuit abuse. The Empowering Patients First Act would give physicians an affirmative defense in a court of law without denying anyone their legal rights.
There are additional reforms included in our plan and in solutions being offered by many other conservative policy thinkers. The bottom line: there's no reason the American people should be forced to suffer under Obamacare or go back to a previous system that was failing so many before, so long as we begin by empowering patients.
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STYROLUTION According to a news release dated May 31 2011 [[1]] Styrolution is a joint venture between BASF and Ineos Industries that makes styrene based plastics. Headquarters is in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. In 2014, Ineos bought out BASF's interest.
Website: http://www.styrolution.com/INTERSHOP/web/WFS/Styrolution-Portal-Site
Company Description
The company makes styrene monomers (SM), polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), styrene-butadiene block copolymers (SBC) and other styrene-based copolymers (SAN, AMSAN, ASA, MABS) as well as copolymer blends. Expandable polystyrene is not part of the jv.
Plants are located in Germany (Ludwigshafen, Schwarzheide, Cologne, Marl), Belgium (Antwerp), Korea (Ulsan), India (Dahej, Vadodara), Mexico (Altamira), Spain (Tarragona), Thailand (Map Ta Phut), Canada (Sarnia), the United States (Indian Orchard, Joliet, Decatur, Texas City, Bayport), France (Wingles) and Sweden (Trelleborg).
Parts of the company appear to be the styrene plastics business from Monsanto. Dow Chemical and General Electric have had competitive businesses although they were recently spun off or divested as low margin businesses.
These are commodity thermoplastics usually sold by the cubic inch in competition with PVC, polyethylene, and polypropylene. This compares with high performance plastics usually called engineering plastics.
In 2014, Styrolution announced plans to close its plant in Indian Orchard, MA shutting down production of polystyrene there and moving selected businesses to Decatur, AL.


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Boulder may allow electric bikes on its multi-use paths under a year-long pilot program.
Advocates for electric bikes say they're just as safe as regular bicycles, and having access to the paths would allow users to take more advantage of Boulder's cycling infrastructure. Some other users of the multi-use paths say the faster speeds and greater weight of electric bicycles means they cannot safely share the already-congested trails with pedestrians and standard bikes.
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Don't fear the e-bike
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Anything that gets more people on bicycles will strengthen the cause for better infrastructure.
If you have never ridden a really nice ebike, you should try one of the ones that is what is known as a "pedalec". These are ebikes that you can't just twist a throttle, you must pedal, and the motor assists your pedaling. Optibike is the Rolls Royce, but Specialized is coming out with a high end pedalec that you won't even recognize as an ebike unless you look twice. http://turbo.specialized.com/tech-specs/
You can get just as good a workout on your commute with a pedalec, you'll just go faster. Once they FINALLY get a bike path along 36, you could easily make if from Table Mesa in Boulder to downtown Denver in 45 minutes or so. It opens a lot of new commuting possibilities.
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