Failing to Ensure Complete, Proper Resolution of Medicare Conditional Payment Claims is Very Risky Business

• 09/15/21
• Melisa C. Zwilling

One of the most common and oftentimes difficult issues parties face when settling claims with Medicare beneficiaries is how to best resolve Medicare conditional payment claims.  This is true in ...
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Making the Most of a Functional Capacity Evaluation

• 09/13/21
• Anne Marciniak

Workers’ compensation payers typically use Functional Capacity Evaluations, known as FCEs, to help guide difficult return-to-work decisions. A return-to-work FCE evaluates an injured employee’s ...
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Low Back Pain: A Better Remedy?

• 09/09/21
• Aliza Krug

Core Strength The term “core strength” seems to be one of the most commonly used phrases when discussing health and fitness. Most group fitness classes include a core section or are solely ...
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Specialty Services for Catastrophic Claims

• 09/07/21
• Craig Evans

In workers’ compensation, catastrophic injuries transpire with relatively low frequency. When they do occur, however, payers demand an all-hands-on-deck approach that calls upon specialized experts to ...
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10 Traits of Fabulous Adjusters: The Work Comp Edition

• 09/02/21
• Claire Muselman

Have you ever been on the flip side of a workers’ compensation claim? Where you were the injured worker? If you have not, have you ever put yourself in the injured worker’s shoes? Or had a family ...
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Managing Employee Fears about the COVID Vaccine

• 08/30/21
• George L. Vergolias

As we enter the back half of 2021, roughly 51% of US citizens are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and another 9.3% are partially vaccinated. (https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=USA). ...
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PTSD and Workers' Compensation: The Difficulty of a Proper Diagnosis

• 08/25/21
• Lynn Timmons

Recently, there has been increasing discussion about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), not only in the general population but also in the workers’ compensation realm in regards to COVID-19. From ...
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Employers Stepping Up: Controlling the Work Comp Claim Process

• 08/23/21
• Michael Stack

It is time for employers to take control of the workers’ compensation process to reduce program costs. This includes taking responsibility for contacting the injured employee, obtaining the required ...
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The Federal Government is Serious About Recovering Medicare Conditional Payments

• 08/18/21
• Rafael Gonzalez

I. Introduction If you have heard me speak about Medicare Secondary Payer compliance over the last 20 years, then you have heard me sounding the bell about the importance, gravity, and seriousness of paying ...
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