Florida - Earlier this month, the Florida workers’ compensation medical reimbursement oversight panel once again recommended an increase in medical fees for the state’s workers’ ...
Read More The longer a post-surgical patient is on opioids, the greater the chances of misuse. Research out of Harvard shows that each week of opioid use coincides with a 20 percent increased risk of dependence, abuse ...
Read More Members of the claim management team are called upon to make important decisions at the inception of a claim. One of these decisions includes the investigation of idiopathic injuries and making ...
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Virtual toolkit is released for training on musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)
A new virtual toolkit from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (UE-OSHA) aims ...
Read More It doesn’t happen in a lot of workers’ compensation cases in Illinois, but in some where a worker has a very serious injury they can be sent temporarily to a nursing home or rehab facility to aid ...
Read More On November 6th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held an informational webinar entitled Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Electronic Attestation Enhancement for ...
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The entire concept of workers' compensation is socialistic. There are those who would argue that all insurance is socialistic, a spreading of the risk of injury of some across a population of many that ...
Read More I usually get nervous when I receive an email titled “friendly reminder,” because it’s often a euphemism for “final warning.” This post isn’t intended as a warning, final ...
Read More A.M. Best recently hosted a webinar on the Insurance AI Imperative, featuring expert speakers and sponsored by Cognizant. Host Jon Weber of A.M. Best framed the discussion as an opportunity for some insurers ...
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