...as well as enforce meaningful oversight and enforcement of state and federal mental health and substance use disorder parity laws, including requiring health insurance companies to demonstrate parity compliance at...
...provide superior reduction in pain for patients in either clinical trial when compared with hydrocodone bitartrate/acetaminophen tablets (HB/APAP) – a common opioid-acetaminophen combination. How Safe Is It? Based on the...
...testing has seen increases in marijuana use. Quest Diagnostics, an organization that manages millions of workplace drug tests for employers, issued a new report in June that analyzed over 9...
Quest Diagnostics, an organization that manages millions of workplace drug tests for employers, released initial findings from their 2022 Drug Testing Index, which is based on over 11 million urine,...
In late 2021, Healthesystems and Risk & Insurance® magazine collaborated once more to conduct the fourth annual Workers’ Comp Industry Insights Survey. Over 480 workers’ comp stakeholders shared their perspectives...
...challenges, and priorities of the workers’ comp industry, while also gaining valuable insights about industry concerns each year, as well as tracking trends over time. Approximately 515 industry stakeholders completed...
...disease that may have been previously mild. For these reasons, specialty arthritis injections like Humira, and now Abrilada, may be seen in workers’ compensation claims. As specialty drugs often come...
...and mobile solutions, Kennedy speaks to three opportunities for digital and mobile solutions to help improve the workers’ comp journey and outcomes, including: Outdated forms of communication, such as snail...
...Series and Comp Laude. Comp Laude Awards and Gala The Comp Laude Awards and Gala is an annual continuing education and networking event that honors esteemed individuals in the workers’...
Florida Governor Rick Scott recently signed Senate Bill 376 into law, officially recognizing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as an occupational disease compensable by workers’ compensation for first responders without the need for...
The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) published A Primer on Behavioral Health in Workers’ Comp, which addresses how behavioral health issues can delay a worker’s recovery and return to work,...
Business Insurance recently featured a new Comp Spotlight as part of their one-on-one video interview series with workers’ comp and safety experts. The new spotlight features Silvia Sacalis, BS, PharmD,...
...functional outcomes by payor type. The report found that psychosocial risks were common among workers’ comp patients with knee and shoulder injuries. Among shoulder patients, 46% reported high levels of...
...resiliency Medical program priorities Barriers to recovery Items that require more visibility Technology Claim complexity Obstacles for claims professionals Click here to view high-level results and access the complete report....
...much more than that, as this position comes with some opportunities to interact with stakeholders across the workers’ comp healthcare ecosystem and ease their experiences. “Workers’ comp is a high-touch...
