Workers' Compensation News
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Marketer Pleads to Kickback Charge in $211M Compound Drug Scheme | 01/30/2019 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Federal prosecutors in Southern California secured another conviction in a case involving more than $211 million in payments for compound drugs that doctors allegedly prescribed in exchange for kickbacks. ...Read More | |||
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Medicare Slashes Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates; Will Comp Follow? | 01/30/2019 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is under fire for a change to the Medicare fee schedule that slashes payment rates for certain hospital outpatient services this year. ...Read More | |||
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Misclassification Would Result in 5-Year Ban From State Work | 01/30/2019 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Companies caught misclassifying workers as independent contractors would be barred from doing business with the state for five years, under a bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House. ...Read More | |||
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McConnaughhay Coonrod Adds Partner, Associate in Jacksonville | 01/28/2019 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers’ comp defense firm McConnaughhay, Coonrod, Pope, Weaver & Stern has added Caitlin Beyl as a partner and Sheryl Ellis as an associate in its Jacksonville, Florida, office. ...Read More | |||
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Massive Cleanup Bill Would Boost TTD and PPD Benefits | 01/24/2019 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: OK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Is this the year that the Oklahoma Legislature tackles comprehensive repairs to its beleaguered workers’ compensation law? ...Read More | |||
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Marsh & McLennan Acquires Bouchard Insurance | 01/24/2019 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Marsh & McLennan Agency announced that it signed a deal to acquire Bouchard Insurance, a full-service agency based in Clearwater, Florida. Bouc...Read More | |||
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Manufacturer Must Pay $250K Restitution for Premium Fraud | 01/23/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Houston manufacturer will pay $250,000 in restitution to Texas Mutual Insurance Co. after pleading guilty to workers’ compensation premium fraud, the state Department of Insurance announced Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Medical Provider Claims for Payment Aren't Subject to Comp Act's Statute of Limitations | 01/22/2019 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division last week ruled that a group of medical providers who treated injured workers were not time-barred from receiving payment for their services. ...Read More | |||
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Mayor Proposes Reforms to Chicago Comp Program, Outside Jobs by Aldermen | 01/16/2019 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been criticized for not taking a stronger stand on a trouble-plagued city workers' compensation program. But two weeks after the alderman who controlled the program was charged with attempted extortion and stepped down from the position, Emanuel has proposed a n...Read More | |||
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Medical Costs Rose Until 2014, but Have Declined Since | 01/15/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Like a sick patient who developed complications, workers’ compensation medical costs in Texas increased sharply after 2000 and continue to rise in some categories. But thanks in part to fewer claims statewide, the patient has stabilized and total costs are now on the decline. ...Read More | |||
