Industry Insights
| Medical Foods and Workers' Comp | 08/25/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaCompPharma and Health Strategy AssociatesThe good folks at the California Workers' Compensation Institute just published a research report (The Cost and Utilization of Compound Drugs, Convenience Packs and Medical Foods in California WC) documenting the rise in spe...Read More | |||
| Medicare and Workers' Comp: Another Cost Driver to the System | 08/04/2010 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Mark WebbPacific Compensation Insurance Co.By now, most of the workers’ compensation community in California has heard of Medicare set-asides. While affecting a relatively small number of claims, the effects of MSAs are anything but small. According to a 2009 study by the ...Read More | |||
| Making Sense of how Medical Bills are to be Handled in Illinois | 08/03/2010 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Eugene KeefeKeefe Campbell & AssociatesEditor’s comment: We are certain there were lots of changes to the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act in 2005. We are fairly confident it hasn’t caught up to doctors, hospitals and other health care billers. We do feel...Read More | |||
| Major Cause. What Does it Mean? | 04/15/2010 | ||
| By: Judge Tom Leonard | |||
| State: OK | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Judge Tom LeonardOklahoma Workers' Compensation Court "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less." Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Gla...Read More | |||
| Massey Energy Mine Disaster: The Soul of a Bean Counter | 04/13/2010 | ||
| State: WV | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesIn our first blog of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster that took 29 lives last week, we made no attempt to point fingers. It was a time for mourning, for acknowledging the sacrifices of the brave men whose jobs never see the light of day....Read More | |||
| Maine's Fee Schedule: Down the Rabbit Hole | 04/05/2010 | ||
| State: ME | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesThree months ago we blogged the ongoing agony of Bath Iron Works (BIW), the people who build destroyers for the Navy. You may recall that BIW self insures for workers comp, and as such must pay the "usual and customary" fees for medical se...Read More | |||
| Monetary Relief for Illinois Employers | 03/29/2010 | ||
| By: Shawn R. Biery | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Shawn R. BieryKeefe, Campbell & AssociatesTaking you back down memory lane, we recall the first Chairman appointed by our current Governor-out-on-bond, supported a change to the funding of the later renamed Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. It was the new Chai...Read More | |||
| Making Workers' Comp Work: The Marine Corps Way | 02/26/2010 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Barbara KarkulaAt the U.S. Marine Corps, we’ve developed a successful three-point approach to ensuring a continually-improving workers’ compensation system: Relationships, education and information. Relationships are a critical building block in establishi...Read More | |||
| Medical Care Seems to Win Out over Medial Forms | 02/17/2010 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Brian M. MittmanIn order to make the system more user friendly, collect needed information and speed up the process the NY Workers Compensation Board and our friends in Albany undertook to create these positives through the 2007 workers compensation law reform and subsequent administr...Read More | |||
| Making Workers' Comp Work | 02/16/2010 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Phil WalkerOn March 11-12 in San Francisco, I am trying to do what many people have thought impossible: bring together the disparate players in the workers comp world to focus on a single objective: to start fixing a broken workers’ comp system in California. P...Read More | |||
