Industry Insights
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Luna: Workers' Comp Needs Quality Measures for Clinical Practice Guidelines | 04/27/2018 | |
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| By: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has announced it will no longer fund its National Guideline Clearinghouse. ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: This Can't Go On Forever, Right? | 05/07/2018 | ||
| Source: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| "The ratio of wages to the cost of living is what the economist calls real wages; the desirability of having real wages as high as possible, consistent with high employment, is a social objective. Rises in real wages do for the most part come about in fact as a consequence of rises in pr...Read More | |||
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Langham: A Fairly Common Misclassification in Arkansas | 04/18/2018 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: AR | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals rendered an interesting decision on March 7. The opinion caught my attention because of recent discussion about independent contractors and misclassification of workers. In ...Read More | |||
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Langham: The Gig Economy Post Redux | 04/09/2018 | |
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| Source: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This blog recently focused on the "gig economy" in The Gig Economy: Can it Be Socialized? That post focuses in part on a New York innovation, a fund for drivers engaged i...Read More | |||
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Luna: Are More Americans Suicidal Because of Opioids? | 03/26/2018 | |
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| Source: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It is becoming more apparent that pain medications may be dangerous for more than one reason. ...Read More | |||
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LeFevre: Confusing the Role of Treatment Guidelines and Formularies | 03/08/2018 | |
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| By: Phil LeFevre | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Clients and partners have asked for an official ODG response to the latest blog by Ca...Read More | |||
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Langham: The Meaning of 'Reasonable' | 03/09/2018 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: IA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals recently rendered an interesting decision in Nestle USA v. Connell. ...Read More | |||
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Luna: Opioid Epidemic Deserves More Than a Closed Formulary | 03/07/2018 | |
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| By: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| We have not yet completed the first quarter of 2018, and numerous states are already engaged in vigorous debate considering the adoption of a drug formulary to help curb opioid use/abuse in their respective workers’ compensation systems. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Comparing Funding Processes | 02/21/2018 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| There are different ways to fund workers' compensation systems. This post compares North Carolina's model to Florida's. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Discovery Sanctions | 01/31/2018 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It has been a few years since I took the bench in Pensacola, more than 16, to be precise. A great deal has changed in Florida workers' compensation over that period. And, perhaps there are things that recur. Through intent or inadvertence, possibly the same disputes and conflicts arise r...Read More | |||
