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In early June, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released The Burden of Opioid-Related Mortality in the United States, a study using a serial cross-sectional design to examine opioid-related...

WorkCompWire, an online news service focused on workers’ comp, recently featured a piece by Healthesystems, 4 Current and Near-Future Drug Trends Impacting Rx Management, which examines evolutions in drug therapy that...

The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) released a report that details declines in opioid dependency within their workers' compensation system. The BWC attributed these drops to the success of various efforts...

Healthesystems will exhibit at the 2019 Workers’ Compensation Institute’s (WCI) Conference in Orlando, Florida from August 12-14. WCI is a nonprofit educational organization for workers’ comp professionals, and their annual...

...a popular topic in comp. In fact, over the last few years, insurance companies had issued reimbursements to injured worker claimants in Minnesota, Maine, and Connecticut, while judges in New Mexico and New Jersey ruled in favor...

Over the last few weeks, two states have passed measures to limit civil liabilities tied to COVID-19, which could foreshadow more to come. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed two executive...

...disorder (OUD) medications. Opioids are often prescribed in workers’ comp, and to a lesser extent, OUD medications also appear in workers’ comp claims. As these drugs are impacted by these...

A collection of workers’ compensation facts and figures...

What do you see as the biggest challenge for your workers’ comp program in 2019 and beyond?...

...businesses, trusts, legal representatives, corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, joint stock companies, universities, schools, non-profit organizations, religious organizations, and more. This bill is still undergoing discussion. Furthermore, while information...