Are Workers' Comp Insurers ready for what comes next in the COVID-19 crisis?

• 05/27/20
• Terry Bogyo

Supplemental background for students of DMCCJ – Workers’ Compensation and Return to Work and DMCCL- Insurance and Other Benefits – Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health ...
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Proposed Rule on Section 111 Reporting Civil Monetary Penalties: What Happens Next?

• 05/22/20
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

The Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) industry (workers’ compensation, liability, and no-fault insurance) has been curious as to what to anticipate now that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...
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Struggles & Risks in Self-Administering Workers' Compensation Medicare Set Asides

• 05/20/20
• Shawn Deane

Following resolution of a workers’ compensation claim that includes payment for future medicals – usually in the form of a Medicare Set Aside (MSA) – injured workers who attempt to ...
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Should workplace health and safety go back to "normal"?

• 05/15/20
• Terry Bogyo

Let me be emphatic:  a pandemic was inevitable.  Maybe not this COVID-19 virus pandemic but a pandemic involving a virus with close-contact transmission and serious ...
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Nurse Triage Delivers Reduced Lag Time and Substantial Savings

• 05/11/20
• Tammy Bradly

When an on-the-job injury occurs, the initial response can be critical in aiding an employee in making the right decision about what type of care they need. Injured employees need to trust that their ...
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Continuing the Consistency of Care How to Manage Chronic Pain Claims During Covid-19

• 05/06/20
• Peter Strauss

These are different times. No one could have reasonably expected our world would be so turned upside down… Yet, we still have to provide for the benefits injured workers are entitled to under the law ...
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Complex Problems <> Simple Solution

• 05/04/20
• Mark Pew

Healthcare is complicated. Healthcare delivered as part of a workers’ compensation claim is even more complicated, for manifold reasons. But stakeholders often do not act as that's the case because ...
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Rhode Island District Court Places Responsible Primary Payer Between a Rock and MSP

• 04/30/20
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

A recent decision out of Rhode Island demonstrates a common dilemma wherein a Non-Group Health Plan (workers’ compensation, liability, or no-fault insurance carrier or self-insured) Responsible ...
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Treating Opioid Use Disorder with Buprenorphine may Provide Dual Benefit for HIV Positive Patients

• 04/27/20
• Eljana Angellari

The opioid epidemic has become a national public health problem. Although, the opioid epidemic is being addressed nationally and drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% from 2017 to 2018, still more than 67,000 ...
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