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Workers' Compensation News

 
MedRisk Creates Patient Advocacy Program to Help Workers Navigate Imaging Process 06/24/2015
State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
MedRisk launched a patient advocacy program to help injured workers navigate the process of diagnostic imaging and physical rehabilitative services.  The program assigns a case manager to an injured employee who is taught what could be expected while getting diagnostic...Read More
 
 
MECC Hires Diplomate of Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as Medical Director 06/23/2015
State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
Midwest Employers Casualty Co., an excess workers’ compensation insurance provider, announced Dr. Fernando S. Branco as the company’s medical director in charge of medical strategy, MECC said in a press release. Branco will focus on implementing innovative interventions to imp...Read More
 
 
Medicaid Programs Looking for Reimbursement from WC in several Ways 06/22/2015
State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
Federal regulators, state regulators in Rhode Island and Kentucky, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Systems and the Texas-based government contractor HMS are all telling workers’ compensation payers the same thing: It’s time to start paying Medicaid. Although state Medicaid programs...Read More
 
 
Medical Advisory Committee Meeting July 10 06/19/2015
State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
Oregon's Medical Advisory Committee will hear a report from a subcommittee on the use of spinal cord stimulators when it meets July 10 in Wilsonville. The advisory committee has been reviewing the use of spinal cord stimulators for injured workers since 2012 in an effort to determine ...Read More
 
 
Misclassification Bill Clears House Committee 06/18/2015
State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
A bill that would create a special enforcement unit to crack down on employers that misclassify workers as independent contractors cleared its first legislative committee on Wednesday. The House Commerce Committee approved ...Read More
 
 
Mason Workers Exposed to Hazards, Co. Cited by OSHA 06/17/2015
State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
A mason work company based out of Fort Worth, Texas, is facing $41,600 in fines for 13 various violations including putting workers in danger of falling objects, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.  Gaspar Fuentes was cited for two repeated and 11 ser...Read More
 
 
Man Ordered to Pay nearly $30K after Pleading Guilty to Fraud 06/16/2015
State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
A Spencerville man was ordered to pay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation close to $28,000 after pleading guilty to a felony charge of workers’ compensation fraud, according to a release from the BWC. ...Read More
 
 

Medical Supplier Ordered to Pay $68,000 to CopperPoint 06/15/2015
State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
(image via 123) The co-owner ...Read More
 
 
MEMIC Sees Increases in Written Premiums and Assets, Financial Audits Say 06/12/2015
State: ME | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
Total premiums earned and surplus for the Maine Employers' Mutual Insurance Co. and its subsidiaries MEMIC Indemnity and MEMIC Casualty have risen significantly since 2013, according to annual financial audits released in conjunction with the carrier's annual report this week. ...Read More
 
 
Maximum Weekly Benefit Increasing to $607 on July 1 06/11/2015
State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
Maximum weekly benefits in Kansas will increase to $610 from $594 July 1, driven by an increase in the state's average weekly wage. Under Kansas' workers' compensation law, the maximum weekly benefit is set at 75% of the state's average weekly wage, which rose to $813.98 i...Read More
 
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