On September 25th, the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) resubmitted outpatient medication rules for self-insured employers to the state’s Common Sense Initiative (CSI), after withdrawing the original proposal on...
The National Comp Conference – formerly known as the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference (NWCDC) – will be held from October 20-22 in Las Vegas, offering in-person and digital...
...The AvertD test is a prescription-use only genetic laboratory test to be used only with patients aged 18 and older who consent to the test and have no prior use...
Quest Diagnostics, an organization that manages workplace drug tests, released initial findings from their 2025 Drug Testing Index, based on an analysis of over 8 million drug tests. Overall, workplace...
The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) published Degenerative and Comorbid Conditions in Workers’ Compensation, a new study that examines the impact of comorbidities on workers' compensation claim outcomes. The...
...their ability to compete in the commercial marketplace. All of this to say, workers’ comp is a space that demands commitment and resilience from all of those involved. Navigating this...
...2024 combined ratio for workers comp is 86%, a sign of underwriting profitability for the system Workers’ comp Accident Year 2024 combined ratio is 99%, with prior years continuing to...
...comp and the use of telemedicine was the #1 change made by workers’ comp organizations in 2020 with 30% reporting that they also used tele-rehab services. As with most industries, over 50%...
...a deeper look at workers’ comp litigation, including tips to reduce litigation in workers’ comp claims, read our RxInformer magazine article, Concerning Counsel: A Look at Litigation in Workers’ Comp....
The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) published Degenerative and Comorbid Conditions in Workers’ Compensation, a new study that examines the impact of comorbidities on workers' compensation claim outcomes. The...
...include firefighters, certified volunteer firefighters, non-certified volunteer firefighters, and law enforcement officers. Kansas Senate Bill 491 was introduced a week later and is currently going through committees and hearings. This...
West Virginia House Bill 2797 was signed into law and will allow mental health nurse practitioners and certified psychiatric physician assistants to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a compensable...
On May 22nd, Healthesystems attended the Colorado Division of Workers’ Compensation (DoWC) stakeholder meeting, where the rising cost of interpretation services – now surpassing prescription drug expenses – was the...
...with over 380 developers in the hope of granting EUAs for diagnostic tests to detect COVID-19, with 50 such tests receiving EUAs. Several COVID-19 tests are being utilized; some take days,...
...where additional legislative changes may be necessary. On a high level, workers’ comp insurance rates in Texas dropped 77% since 2003, with insurance companies writing in Texas averaging a 10%...
