Expert Analysis

As an eternal optimist, I understand the times when people tell you to stay positive, look on the bright side, or it could have been worse. I get it. I continuously practice it. And even […]

If we’ve heard the Great Resignation discussed once, we have heard it discussed 100 times.  It’s surprising it didn’t make Webster’s Dictionary list of new words in 2022.  It is also evolving into new terms […]

Employers have a direct positive impact on their claims results if they partner with the claims examiners.  When employers treat the claims examiner as a professional partner, claims results are always better. When employers work […]

By David Ring, MD PhD  Associate Dean for Comprehensive Care and Professor of Surgery & Psychiatry at University of Texas Dell Medical School ‍ The human mind is programmed to interpret a new pain as an injury, […]

In the late 1990s, evidence-based medicine was deemed innovative and the “be-all-do-all” for delivering care to injured workers. The EBM mantra advanced in the 21st century packaged in ever-evolving, proprietary treatment guidelines marketed as the […]

Since the birth of case management in the workers’ compensation industry, payers and employers have struggled to quantify the impact that case management has on a claim. Questions surrounding whether case management saves money on […]

Nothing is more challenging in the life of most people than changing behavior.  For many, very obvious reasons, nothing will interrupt your usual behavior patterns quicker and more fully than a serious injury.  In recovery, […]

Some days, we’ll come across a certain event – one that isn’t too rare, but also isn’t too common – and simply brush it off. “It probably doesn’t mean anything,” we say to ourselves. But […]