Facility costs are the problem. Here’s why.

• 02/07/19
• Joe Paduda

Costs for hospital-based care – driven by large price increases – are increasing faster than any other medical service. This from HealthAffairs: in the period 2007–14 hospital ...
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The Alabama Workers' Compensation Organization...Membership has its Privileges

• 02/05/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

  Membership in the AWCO offers a number of professional and social opportunities annually to interact with other workers' compensation professionals.  The highlight of the year is the annual AWCO ...
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The Wizard Behind The Curtain – Part One

• 02/05/19
• Tom Lynch

Suddenly, everybody’s out to get Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs. CMS, state legislatures, state Medicaid officials, a boatload of experts and even Donald Trump, who appears to actually and ...
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NEW YORK--H&W New York Workers' Compensation Defense Newsletter

• 02/04/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

  https://mailchi.mp/hwcomp/hw-newsletter-farewell-dave-davis-hello-abr-denials?e=%5bUNIQID 
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Alabama DOL Ombudsmen will Continue to Offer set Schedule for Benefit Review Conferences in Birmingham

• 02/02/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

  Ombudsmen Patricia Fraley and Ted Roose plan to continue to keep regular office hours on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month from 9-12 and 1-3 for anyone who wants to submit a settlement for their ...
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Pleading the Fifth in Texas

• 02/01/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

No less inventive than the pleadings in the prior entry is the basis for a lawsuit filed by a group of injured workers against the Texas Division, claiming that a designated doctor’s ability to assign ...
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(Bad) Advice and Consent

• 02/01/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

Of the twenty-one original defendants indicted in the Forest Park bribery and kickback scheme in 2016, ten remain scheduled to appear in federal court in Dallas. Among them is Royce Bicklein, noted ...
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The Part of the Newsletter with the Boring Rules Updates

• 02/01/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation, adopted a new rule, 28 TAC §140.9, which took effect on January 7, 2019, requiring that parties seeking to reset, reschedule, ...
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Coming & Going in Texas

• 02/01/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

Several of Texas Division’s Administrative Law Judges are relocating to new offices, while others are either leaving for good or returning for more. Just last October, Judge Geri-Lyn Thomas left the ...
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