We have reviewed case law and the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Act for guidance on how cases of Coronavirus exposure and diagnosis will be evaluated by the Board.
Alaska Statute 23.30.395(24) ...
Read More Editors Note: This is the last of a three part installment. Part 1 is available here. Part 2 is available here.
Part Three of Three: Five methods for setting reserves
In our previous installment, we ...
Read More Editors Note: This is the second of a three part installment. Part 1 is available here. The final part will run tomorrow.
Part Two of Three: Your reserving philosophy.
In our first installment, we ...
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Editors Note: This is the first of a three part installment. Part 2 will run tomorrow.
Part One of Three: Introduction
When the claims audit was completed, it was clear that the self-insured program was ...
Read More I. Compensability of COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Claims.
Infectious diseases such as COVID-19 can be compensable as either a personal ...
Read More In this era of rapid changes to health care, networks are becoming more important than ever. They’re evolving from relatively straightforward mechanisms for directing patients and controlling costs to ...
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As one who came into workers’ comp from the larger managed care world, I’m often struck at how insular and, frankly, ignorant many workers’ comp folks are about the world in which we ...
Read More In Part 2 of this series we talked about the The 3 “E’s”, 4 “R’s” and 6 Principles of Trauma Informed Care and their effect on the Trauma-informed Care Process. In this ...
Read More On February 26, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice and released documentation related to questions and answers (Q&A) from recent town hall webinars addressing ...
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