Workers' Compensation News
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Analyst: Comp on Track for Third Profitable Year in a Row | 09/05/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A.M. Best is projecting a $5.1 billion net underwriting loss for the U.S. property and casualty industry for the first half of 2017, even greater than the $2 billion underwriting loss in the first half of last year. ...Read More | |||
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Advisory Council Recommends Medical Fee Schedule at Group Health Rates | 08/30/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: WI | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Wisconsin Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council will recommend that lawmakers enact a hybrid Medicare-based medical fee schedule with prices that are consistent with the average negotiated price of group health plans statewide. ...Read More | |||
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Approval of Attorney Fee Motions Must Be Filed Electronically | 08/30/2017 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Department of Workers’ Claims is reminding attorneys to file motions of approval for attorney fees electronically through the state’s Litigation Management System (LMS). ...Read More | |||
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Assessment, Surcharge Rates Dropping Again Next Year | 08/28/2017 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The assessment levied on Minnesota employers to pay for workers’ compensation programs will drop by $2 million in 2018 to $78 million, the Department of Labor and Industry said in its monthly newsletter. ...Read More | |||
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Agency Proposes to Add Judicial Guidelines to Permanent Rules | 08/28/2017 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Division of Administrative Hearings will hold a rule development workshop at 10 a.m. Sept. 15 to discuss its notice of intent to add the Guidelines of the Statewide Nominating Commission to the Rules of Procedures for Workers’ Compensation Adjudication. ...Read More | |||
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Assembly Speaker Convening Select Committee on Universal Health Care | 08/25/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon on Thursday announced that an interim committee will hold meetings after the legislative session ends in September to discuss plans for a universal health care system in California. ...Read More | |||
| Agency Releases New Medicare Rates for Glucose Monitoring Systems | 08/25/2017 | ||
| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Executive Office of Health and Human Services has issued Administrative Bulletin 17-15 to establish rates for four new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Level II codes, for services provide...Read More | |||
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Another State Aims for More Transparency With PBM Contracts | 08/24/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| New Jersey insurance regulators have proposed new rules that would force pharmacy benefit managers to be more transparent in contracting with pharmacies. ...Read More | |||
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Alexis Kearns Joins Reed Group as SVP of HR | 08/23/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Reed Group, publisher of the MDGuidelines medical treatment guidelines, has hired Alexis Kearns as senior vice president of human resources. ...Read More | |||
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Andrew Kurata Named Acting Captive Administrator | 08/23/2017 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Gordon Ito announced the appointment of Andrew Kurata as acting captive insurance administrator. Kurata has been with...Read More | |||
