May 31st: WCIRB Issues Updated Report with May Data The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) of California published a new report evaluating the potential workers’ compensation claims costs arising...
...rate from 2006-2017.2 This trend is so prevalent that workers’ comp professionals in managed care are now focusing more attention to other matters. According to a 2020 workers’ comp industry...
Three members of Healthesystems’ executive leadership recently shared their thoughts and expertise on major topics of interest to the workers’ comp industry. Kristine Kennedy, SVP, Product Strategy and Innovation, was...
...had prescription drugs, compared to 26.8% nationwide. However, median payments for brand drugs were slightly higher in South Dakota at $478, compared to $477 nationwide. As for generics, South Dakota...
...BAM POW their way through workers’ comp claims. Stop by Booth #921 to learn about our comprehensive solutions that help simplify the management of workers’ comp pharmacy service and ancillary...
...care from massage therapists, but massage therapists would not be permitted to establish workplace injury causation or disability. Licensed massage therapists would be required to complete a formal course of...
...1,200 or 57% of compensable COVID-19 claims, equaling $1.3 million or 40% of total COVID-19 benefits paid Protective services, which include first responders, made up 650 or 31% of compensable...
Physician dispensing represents an ongoing and growing challenge for today’s workers’ comp payers – not only from a cost perspective, but from clinical and safety perspectives. Learn about the concerns...
The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has posted proposed changes to its Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS) Rules, which would allow for submission of documents with electronic signatures, consistent with...
...could lessen the impact of the opioid epidemic. While this proposal is still being reviewed, WorkCompCentral, an online news service focused on workers’ comp, published an article that explored this issue. The article...
