The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Committees (IAIABC) will hold their 2024 Forum in Cincinnati, Ohio from April 8-10, where committees and councils will discuss policy and administrative...
The FDA received reports of allergic-type reactions potentially related to sulfite-containing compounded drugs. FDA is alerting health care professionals, compounders and patients about the risk of potentially serious allergic-type reactions...
...federal actions. Healthesystems’ representatives committed to providing feedback to ensure clarity on how, and if, Medicare-negotiated drug pricing would apply to workers’ compensation claims. Written comments on the proposed rules...
Risk & Insurance® magazine recently published an article on novel technologies applied to physical therapy programs in workers’ comp, and how they can improve injured worker recovery and lower costs....
...and priorities of the workers’ comp industry. The survey was conducted at the 2023 National Comp conference in Las Vegas from September 20 to 22 and online through the end...
...on work-related PTSD, with a complete study due by August 1, 2025. After the survey is complete, participants can also opt in for a follow-up interview; however, participation is voluntary....
Public support for marijuana is at an all-time high. What does this mean for workers’ comp? Learn when marijuana could appear in a claim, how legislation dictates marijuana use, what...
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) recently released the report Study of Chronic Opioid Use and Weaning in California Workers’ Compensation, which analyzes characteristics of injured workers who were chronic...
...work), as compared to 1.8 million men who left the labor force.5 And there is evidence to suggest a good number of those women may not come back to work, such...
...negative consequences for reporting an injury Stigma around workers’ comp patients across various stakeholders Plans for self-care Lack of direction from employers and insurers Approximately 25% of patients faced complications...
On October 2nd, Healthesystems attended a Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) webinar, which provided key insights into Pennsylvania’s workers’ comp system, compared to other states. Using data from WCRI’s benchmarks...
The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) has released the 18th edition of their CompScope Benchmarks, a series of comprehensive reports that examine income benefits, overall medical payments, costs, use of benefits,...
...and opioid overdose. The study involved a population-based, county-level analysis that compared three sets of data. The first data set was industry marketing information pulled from the Centers for Medicare...
