Industry Insights
Paduda: Are Work Comp Medical Costs Really Dropping? | 05/19/2016 | ||
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The recent announcement at NCCI AIS that medical costs for lost-time claims dropped for the first time ever was a shocker. Talks with experts and industry pros after Kathy Antonello’s talk led to much head scratching and wondering. ...Read More | |||
Paduda: Opioids, Spines and Dead People | 04/28/2016 | ||
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Friend and colleague Dr. David Deitz was kind enough to provide his perspective on two seemingly unconnected items in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that are highly relevant for medical providers treating occupational injuries. ...Read More | |||
Priz: Tangled Webs and Workers' Comp Insurance | 04/26/2016 | ||
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Sometimes I think the insurance industry gets a little too clever for its own good, particularly in regard to workers' compensation insurance. And when it does, it often ends up generating considerable work for the courts and for insurance regulators. ...Read More | |||
Pew: Steak and Pain | 04/14/2016 | ||
By: Mark Pew | |||
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A doctor, two pharmacists and a blogger walk into a bar ... That's not a joke but how dinner started Tuesday in San Diego's Gaslamp District after a second excellent day at the Risk Insurance Management Society conference. As happens so often when I get together with friends ...Read More | |||
Paduda: Why Be a Crook When You Can Be a Dispensing Doc? | 04/13/2016 | ||
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The Workers' Compensation Research Institute's latest report on physician dispensing confirms what we weary soldiers have known for years: The physician dispensing industry is way better at figuring out how to screw employers and taxpayers than workers’ comp payers and regulators ar...Read More | |||
Paul: The Home Health Care Burden | 03/28/2016 | ||
By: Jeremiah L. Paul | |||
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Many of us have experienced that gut-wrenching moment of receiving an out-of-the-blue demand for reimbursement of hundreds of thousands of dollars for home health care. I was recently presented with such a demand, and as is often the case, the demand was accompanied with little to no proof or exp...Read More | |||
Paduda: What Happened to Work Comp Regulation? | 03/21/2016 | ||
By: Joe Paduda | |||
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In response to my post on payers shifting medical management strategy decision-making from experts to non-experts, a longtime friend and colleague provided his perspective. Wi...Read More | |||
Peeking at Zuniga | 02/12/2016 | ||
By: Julius Young | |||
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Like a giant bear hibernating through winter, California’s workers’ comp system is in a relatively quiet phase. Yet there’s always notable stuff happening. For example, despite the fact that in Frances Stevens v. Outspoken Enterprises, one panel of the California...Read More | |||
Personal Injury Attorney Suspended for Poor Handling of Medicare Reimbursement | 12/08/2015 | ||
By: Jennifer Jordan | |||
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Parsons Presumption for Entirely Different Injury | 10/20/2015 | ||
By: Teague Campbell | |||
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Johnnie Wilkes was a 62-year-old landscaper working in the Recreation and Parks Department for the City of Greensboro. He had worked for the city for approximately nine years. On April 21, 2010, Wilkes was involved in a car accident. He was treated for an abrasion to his head, broken ri...Read More | |||