Industry Insights
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Geaney: Preventive Actions Do Not Trigger Temporary Disability Benefits | 04/07/2020 | |
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| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Let me begin with a correction to a prior blog. ...Read More | |||
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Smith: Working Closer, Stronger, Better | 04/06/2020 | |
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| By: Matthew J. Smith | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted vast damage across our nation and the globe. Especially heartbreaking is the large loss of human life. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Workers' Comp Medical Network Penetration Increases Utilization Costs | 04/03/2020 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A recent National Council on Compensation Insurance study indicates that a higher workers' comp medical network penetration rate results in a higher rate of utilizat...Read More | |||
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Goldstein: Will Expansion of Telehealth Lead to More Conditional Payments? | 04/02/2020 | |
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| Source: Jean S. Goldstein | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In 2019, Medicare started covering some virtual care services. The services included brief communications and Virtual Check-Ins (short patient-initiated communications with a health care practitioner) along with e-visits (non-face-to-face patient-initiated communications through an online patient...Read More | |||
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Friedman: Strategies for Defense of Post-Layoff CT Claims in the Coronavirus Era | 04/01/2020 | |
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| By: Heywood G. Friedman | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It is an anticipated, unfortunate consequence of the COVID-19 health crisis that many employers in California will soon lay off a significant quantity of their workforce. Layoffs in the range of 80% are estimated in the retail, hospitality and construction fields. ...Read More | |||
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Luna: Coping With COVID-19 | 03/31/2020 | |
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| By: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It’s been 60 days since the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern.” Since then, media coverage and general societal discussion have ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: Coronavirus vs. QMEs | 03/30/2020 | |
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| By: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Our office, designated to do a panel qualified medical evaluation, ran into a plethora of unexpected complications on a recent case. ...Read More | |||
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Young: Video Evals During the Coronavirus Emergency | 03/27/2020 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Qualified medical evaluations are part of the essential plumbing of the California workers’ comp system. If that plumbing gets too backed up, we have a major mess on our hands. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: LAPD Officer's Fraud Taints Convictions | 03/26/2020 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I’ve got a bittersweet item to report. A former Los Angeles Police Department officer, Michael Simon, of Redondo Beach, pleaded no contest to grand theft and insurance fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Reporting to Work During Pandemic as Special Mission | 03/25/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I have great concern that the end of the pandemic will be rife with confusing politics. No sitting president wants a paralyzed economy leading into the election for a second term. ...Read More | |||
