Industry Insights
| Physician Dispensing in Comp Worse than you Think | 01/17/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaCompPharma and Health Strategy AssociatesThe good folks at the National Council on Compensation Insurance just released research that focuses attention on what looks to be the fastest growing part of the work comp medical dollar drugs dispensed by physicians....Read More | |||
| Proposed Action on CMS Approval Regulation | 01/06/2011 | ||
| State: MD | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jennifer JordanMedvalMaryland's proposed regulations requiring Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approval of all claims meeting the CMS review thresholds were published in the Maryland Register on Jan. 3. Evidence of the continued underestimation of the impact of th...Read More | |||
| Predictions for Work Comp in the New Year | 01/04/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaCompPharma and Health Strategy AssociatesThis always seems like a good idea in January, looks like a not-well-thought-through idea in July, and by December morphs into a well-it-coulda-been-worse idea.But I've got a short memory, so here goes in no par...Read More | |||
| Pallative Care: The Cure to Workers' Compensation Blues? | 12/23/2010 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| I feel like a numberI'm not a numberI'm not a numberDammit I'm a manI said I'm a manBob Segar - Feel Like a NumberBy David J. DePaoloWorkCompCentralThe Los Angeles Times published a front page story Dec. 19 on palliat...Read More | |||
| Pre-Employment Fibs, Compensability, and Second Injury Funds | 10/18/2010 | ||
| State: LA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon Coppelman Lynch Ryan & Associates There is no doubt that Ronald Babin, an electrician in Louisiana, was injured at work. He was in the bucket of a truck, working on a transformer, when the bucket mechanism malfunctioned, crushing the bucket into the transformer...Read More | |||
| Patient Confidentiality? Not in Texas. | 09/29/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaHealth Strategy AssociatesQ - When is it legal for someone to examine patient records?A - When they are a legislator seeking to "defend doctors he believes were wrongly the subjects of misconduct investigations by the (Texas Medical) board, which licenses t...Read More | |||
| Prosthetic Devices Blow up the Statute of Limitations | 09/14/2010 | ||
| By: Michael Rabinowitz | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael RabinowitzBanker Lopez & GasslerFor many of the changes in workers’ compensation, the saying would go “the legislature giveth, the legislature taketh.” That saying remains true ... until the 1st District Court of Appeals says otherwise....Read More | |||
| Predicting Benefit From Pain Treatments | 08/27/2010 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Robert J. Barth, PH.D.Psychological and social factors (e.g., mental illness, a history of being physically abused, eligibility for compensation, etc.) are extremely well-established as being predictive of the development of chronic pain. The non-credible premise that chronic pain is ...Read More | |||
| Political Developments | 07/22/2010 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Julius YoungBoxer & GersonLast month I noted in a post "Nail Biters" that Assemblywoman Mary Salas had nudged out former Assemblyman Juan Vargas in a race for the Democratic nomination in the 50th Senate District.Not so. The margin between Salas and Vargas was no...Read More | |||
| Preventing Joint Replacement Surgery in WC Claims | 05/06/2010 | ||
| By: Jon Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon Gelman Joint replacement claims are becoming more frequent in workers’ compensation and proving compensability remains challenging. As the aging working population has expanded so has been the need for workers’ compensation to pay for the cost of replacing aging joints...Read More | |||
