Workers' Compensation News
|
PBMs Under Pressure to Provide Price Transparency | 05/01/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| Pharmacy benefit managers, which have been little-recognized players in the health care system, are facing growing national scrutiny as their role in rising drug prices is being more closely examined. ...Read More | |||
|
PatNat Adds Board Members After Two Depart | 05/01/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Patriot National Inc. last week announced the appointment of three new members to its board of directors: Ernst Csiszar, Terry L. Coleman and Glenn Hibler. ...Read More | |||
|
Panel Finds Worker Failed to Link Foot Infection to Alleged Injury From Slip-and-Fall | 04/28/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel ruled that a diabetic worker with a history of foot problems failed to prove his foot infection was causally related to an alleged on-the-job fall. ...Read More | |||
|
Pinnacol Announces Trio of Risk Management Symposiums | 04/25/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Colorado's state fund, Pinnacol Assurance, will hold three risk management symposiums this summer. The daylong symposiums, for poli...Read More | |||
|
Physical Therapists' Lawsuit Against One Call Moves to Federal Court | 04/24/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Independent Physical Therapists of California lawsuit accusing One Call Medical and Align Networks of unfair business practices has been moved from state to federal court. ...Read More | |||
| Public Invited to Submit Comments on Fee Schedule Until May 10 | 04/24/2017 | ||
| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The public has the opportunity to submit comments on Virginia's draft medical fee schedule until May 10, with a public hearing scheduled for May 23. The medical fee schedule is set to go into effect in January 2018. It is heading into its last phase of development now, with the period...Read More | |||
|
Physician Admits to Accepting $66K in Cash for Referrals | 04/20/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New Jersey physician admitted this week to accepting $66,000 in cash bribes over two years to refer patients to a Parsippany laboratory, federal pro...Read More | |||
|
Panel to Decide Provider Fee Updates Worth $120 Million in System Costs | 04/19/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Florida's Three-Member Panel today will consider increasing provider reimbursements and raising system costs by 3.3% for next year, which when coupled with the recent 14.5% rate hike would negate nearly a third of the savings from the state's 2003 reforms. ...Read More | |||
|
Post-Acute Care Planning Is Topic of Webinar | 04/19/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| How to plan for an injured worker’s discharge from acute care will be the topic of a free, one-hour webinar on Thursday hosted by Optum Workers’ Comp. ...Read More | |||
|
Premium Continues Growing as Charged Rates Drop | 04/18/2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Even though the price of workers' compensation coverage is dropping in California, gross income for insurers has been on the rise. ...Read More | |||
