Industry Insights
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Langham: Some Marijuana Findings Reconsidered | 07/23/2019 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Recently in Science and Doubt, the credibility of opinions was discussed. I was reminded of that recently when the Associated Press headline proclaimed Medical Pot Law...Read More | |||
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Moore: What Happened to Positivity? | 07/22/2019 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Measuring workers' comp negativity remains one of the easiest tasks for bloggers and authors inside and outside of the industry. ...Read More | |||
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George and Walls: Social Determinants of Workforce Health | 07/19/2019 | |
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| By: Kimberly George and Mark Walls | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Getting the best outcomes for injured workers involves much more than just treating the actual injury. Their recoveries depend on a variety of additional factors such as whether they have access to healthy food and clean water, their ability to travel to medical appointments and the extent o...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Legislature Proposes Psyche Presumption for LEOs, Firefighters | 07/18/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| You know what California really needs? We need a strong lobby group that will protect our most precious and marginalized citizens — a lobby group to look after the interests of those who are rarely thanked, often forgotten and frequently subject to abuse. ...Read More | |||
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Goldstein: CMS Issues Proposal to Cover Acupuncture | 07/17/2019 | |
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| By: Jean S. Goldstein | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed decision to cover acupuncture for Medicare patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP) who are enrolled participants either in clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or in...Read More | |||
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Paduda: One Call, WCRI and a Correction/Expansion | 07/16/2019 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Too darn busy last week to get my usual three-five posts up. Things are calming down this week. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Once Claim Accepted, Worker Must Transfer Care to MPN | 07/15/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Often enough, we have an applicant attorney fighting tooth and nail, proverbially speaking, to keep out of a defendant’s medical provider network. ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: Bad Faith Changes to Regulations Have Good Chance of Passage | 07/12/2019 | |
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| By: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| When a defendant objects to a bill for a medical-Legal expense, it must do so in compliance with LC 4622. Regulation 10451.1 is operative. Some defendants find the rules particularly onerous and want to tilt the process so ...Read More | |||
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Castillo: On the Backs of Injured Workers | 07/11/2019 | |
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| By: Michael Castillo | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) released its 2018 California Workers' Compensation Losses and Expenses report last week, showing another win for insurers as medical payments and losses declined, by roughly $100 million. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Evaluating the Denied Claim | 07/10/2019 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I recently mediated a partially denied claim where the attorney for the injured worker had no idea what the value of the future medical costs might be. It was an old dog claim, and treaters had been deposed multiple times. ...Read More | |||
