After a decade of combatting opioid abuse and addiction among injured worker patients, workers’ compensation payers are finally seeing a significant reduction in opioid prescriptions and costs. Visit RxInformer online...
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) released its annual report covering trends from 2003 to 2023, including claims, benefits, costs, vocational rehabilitation, and dispute resolution to describe the...
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...all key cost components being lower. In Pennsylvania, the total costs per claim with more than seven days of lost time increased 4% in 2022/2023, driven by an 8% increase...
...PharmD, was featured in WorkCompWire’s Leaders Speak Series, discussing clinical trends in workers’ comp, including changing populations, shifts in chronic pain drug therapy, and comorbidities. Read the article in full online at WorkCompWire....
...comp systems from 2017 to 2022, with claims experience through March 2023, excluding COVID-19 claims. The 17 study states include Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,...
...Adam Seidner, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at The Hartford. The presentation will be held at 10:45 AM and again at 4:15 PM on Thursday, December 6th at NWCDC 2018...
The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) published a new report on Remote Work and Workers Compensation Frequency to assess trends among remote workers. To analyze changes in remote work,...
...drivers and emerging trends in total costs per claim and key components. According to the reports, total workers’ comp claim costs increased an average of 6% per year from 2022...
In the first five months of 2024 alone, healthcare data breaches affected 32 million U.S. patients. And as of 2023, healthcare reported the most expensive data breaches of any industry,...
...ensure that doctors in the workers’ comp system treat, recommend, and prescribe medically necessary and appropriate health care that is timely and cost-effective, as well as facilitate functional recovery and...
New Jersey Senate Bill 1555 was introduced, which would amend workers’ comp law to establish that if an employee is intoxicated at the time of an injury or death, it...
On August 12th, Healthesystems attended the Colorado Division of Workers’ Compensation (DoWC) 2025 Legislative Update Webinar, which focused on the recently enacted House Bill 1300, which significantly alters access to...
