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Clues to CMS Future Gleaned from WCRC Solicitation Notice

By: Sidney Wong   The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) moved forward with requests for proposal regarding the Workers’ Compensation Review Contractor (WCRC) contract by releasing a...

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Advocating for our Industry

By: Kimberly Brown, SVP Government Relations, Sedgwick Sedgwick is proud to support the Association of Claims Professionals (ACP) to advance our industry and sustain future growth and positive...

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Workers Compensation for Uber and Lyft Drivers

By Ericka Murray How many times this week have you grabbed your phone and requested a ride from a service such as Uber or Lyft? Most people in urban areas have access to such services these days. Some...

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Preventing the Vortex of Failure

By: Lydia Hendrix, COO, NeuLife Rehabilitation Those of us that have years of experience working with catastrophically injured individuals see the disturbing pattern time and time again…The patient...

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Recent Developments in Telemedicine in California Workers Compensation

By: Michael P. Burns  The past decade has seen an explosion in online access and improvements in technology. These changes have naturally resulted in changes in medicine. Smartphone applications and...

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Trump Administration May Bring a Surge in Occupational Disease Claims

Mesothelioma death rates remain high in the US even on the eve of an anticipated national ban of the asbestos fiber. Things may radically change for the worse as the Trump Administration goes forward...

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Appraising the Grand Bargain

At the 2017 WCRI Annual Issues and Research Conference, a panel debated the state of the workers’ compensation “grand bargain” in 2017. The panel was: David Dietz, MD – David Dietz & Associates Dr....

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Subrogation and the Admissibility of Expert Testimony

By: Gary L. Wickert  The use of expert witnesses has become an integral and indispensable aspect of American litigation, and it is often the side with the best expert who wins the day. The same holds...

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Is Mental Injury Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

By: Robert Wilson  Yesterday Peter Rousmaniere published a rather scathing opinion piece on this site accusing the insurance industry in general of intentionally misleading the federal government and...

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Formulary Implementation for Legacy Claims

By: Karen Atkins The Tennessee drug formulary has been deemed applicable to all dates of injury, including legacy claims. By legacy claims, I mean those claims where an injured worker was prescribed a...

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Update on Medical Marijuana

By: Tom Lynch Yesterday, while attending WCRI’s Annual Conference in Boston, we wrote about the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) new research results concerning the effectiveness of  medical...

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Recently Released and Soon to be Released Generics Expected to Reduce Claims...

Over the past several years, prescription drug costs related to workers’ compensation claims have risen dramatically, making it increasingly important for claims professionals to carefully evaluate...

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Impact of the 2016 Election on Health Care, Labor and Workers’ Compensation

At the 2017 WCRI Annual Issues and Research Conference, former US Representative Henry Waxman and former US Senator Tom Colburn discussed how the 2016 election is impacting a variety of issues. The...

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Guest Post: Dr. Douglas Lurie on Work as Medicine

What if there was a treatment that was well accepted with scientific validity as being therapeutic, low risk, cheap and proven to improve outcomes and diminish claim duration? Believe it or not, but...

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Liability MSAs: What We Know and What to Expect

By: Kendell Gracey  The dust is still swirling around the Liability Medicare Set-Aside (LMSA) issue, but a few areas clearly show Medicare’s plan and intended next steps. First, Medicare appears to...

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Unit-based Champions Promote Risk Management Culture

Today, leading-edge organizations systematically share internal control knowledge across their organization, departments and functions to promote best practices and to minimize loss. Healthcare...

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WorkersCompensation.com Enters News Publication Partnership with WCI

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Starting this week, WorkersCompensation.com Premium Media Services will be providing current news and blog content for the Workers' Compensation Institute. It...

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Constitutionality of California’s IMR Procedure Not a ‘Slam Dunk’

By John Gerboth Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - On March 20, California's Third District Court of appeals heard oral arguments in the case of Ramirez v. WCAB. The case involved a...

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Overcoming with Community

By Mark Pew I spent some time last weekend going through some of my older blogposts and read "It's Personal" that I published on June 30, 2015. In it I relate a conversation with a lady on a shuttle...

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Dissolving MT State Fund Dead in the Water… For Now

By Angela Underwood Helena, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) — The Montana State Fund isn't going anywhere regardless of Senator Eric Moore's (R-Miles City) proposal last week to dissolve the state's...

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