Industry Insights
Luna: Rethinking Return-to-Work | 01/09/2017 | ||
By: Carlos Luna | |||
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If there were a proven way to help injured workers return to health quickly and safely, wouldn’t it be in everyone’s best interest to make it a treatment protocol? ...Read More | |||
Langham: What if Not a Party to THIS Case | 01/05/2017 | ||
By: David Langham | |||
State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
The 2016 holiday season brought me more entreaties regarding identification of carriers. Attorneys are reaching the conclusion of their case, preparing paperwork, and filing it with the Judge's office. They are dismayed, having documented a resolution between "Joe Claimant," and &qu...Read More | |||
Langham: Important Points From 2017 Three-Member Panel Draft Report | 01/03/2017 | ||
By: David Langham | |||
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The Florida Three-Member Panel will meet this month in Tallahassee. The panel is a statutory body created and enabled by Section 440.13(12), Fla. Stat. It deals with reimbursement rates and schedules. And, it is charged with submitting biennial recommendations "on methods to improve the...Read More | |||
Langham: A Florida Formulary? | 12/28/2016 | ||
By: David Langham | |||
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This blog recently featured a post on "progress." The central focus of progress is the necessity of having goals. Without goals, or a destination, it is practically impossible to ascertain progress v...Read More | |||
Langham: Defining 'Progress' | 12/21/2016 | ||
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How do we define progress? Perhaps that is one of the most vexing questions regarding the concept of worker's compensation and the debates about its future. ...Read More | |||
Langham: Legislative Seismic Shift in Florida? | 12/13/2016 | ||
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Florida was late to the party, adopting workers' compensation 81 years ago, in 1935 (several states have already celebrated centennials). ...Read More | |||
Langham: When Will Electronic Billing Come to Florida? | 11/30/2016 | ||
State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
This fall, New Jersey joined the modern world of medical services, with a law requiring electronic medical billing. In the electronic age of smartphones, the internet, email and more, paper bills and envelopes remain the predominant business practice for medical billing. It is a topic t...Read More | |||
Luna: Return to Work: Work Comp's Unsung Hero | 11/18/2016 | ||
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Today’s workers’ compensation regulatory landscape is populated by requests to standardize the use of prescription drug monitoring technology, evidence-based medicine treatment guidelines, drug formularies and other modern approaches to occupational medicine. ...Read More | |||
Langham: Observations on Professionalism | 11/10/2016 | ||
By: David Langham | |||
State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
Years ago, I was doing some research for a presentation I agreed to deliver. My process involved reading some depositions filed in various cases. That presentation focused on medicine, so I gravitated toward medical depositions selected from random cases. I noticed various methodologies lawy...Read More | |||
Langham: Two Emails I Recently Received | 10/18/2016 | ||
State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
I recently received some interesting emails. They were both critical of workers' compensation. ...Read More | |||