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Who's Really in Charge of Return to Work? 

In workers’ compensation, there seem to be differing opinions around who’s really in charge of return to work.  The answer becomes clearer when you consider who ultimately must make the decision to return to work.  […]

A New Framework for Predicting Chronic Pain

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that over 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, and other researchers put that number much higher, around 110 million. Additionally, 7.4 percent of people with chronic […]

CMS Discredits Non-Submits in WCMSA Reference Guide Version 3.5

Whether or not to submit has through the years been touted as the main event at dozens of national conferences and seminars, promoting these sessions like MSP cage-match battles, pitting experts against one another in […]

A Final Rule on Medicare Secondary Payer and Civil Monetary Penalties up to $1000 per day/per claim is Just 1 Year Away: Is Your Claims Organization Prepared?

On February 18, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding scenarios in which Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) for noncompliance with MMSEA Section 111 reporting could […]

Reducing Disability Durations and Improving Claim Outcomes Through the Use of Transitional Duty

Transitional duty is defined as a temporary assignment to a modified (schedule, job tasks) version of one’s regular job or even reassignment to another position while recovering from injury or illness with the goal of […]

A Love Letter to the Workers' Compensation Industry

The workers’ compensation industry has been my home, and my family for the past (almost) 18 years. This has been a space of such fantastic opportunity and enhancement of the human spirit. This space is […]