Industry Insights
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Young: The WCIRB Copes With COVID-19 | 04/09/2020 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 654 | 0 | |||
| The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee met Wednesday morning, with the public meeting featuring a presentation by Chief Actuary David Bellusci. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Why Video Mediations Are Like Early Personal Computers | 04/08/2020 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 421 | 0 | |||
| You may have heard the acronym RTFM. As soon as everyday consumers started using computers, telephone customer support staff had to field daily questions about the most basic functions. ...Read More | |||
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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 | 590 | 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 | 1478 | 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 | 348 | 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 | 318 | 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 | 885 | 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 | 1034 | 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 | 666 | 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 | 558 | 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 | |||
