Workers' Compensation News
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Britt: Attendant Care in Post-Reform Workers' Compensation Claims | 06/01/2017 | |
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| By: Courtney Britt | |||
| State: NC | Segment: Top | 502 | 0 | |||
| In recent years, attendant care provided under North Carolina’s Workers’ Compensation Act has gotten quite a bit of attention in the appellate courts and at the General Assembly. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: My Workers' Comp Accident | 05/30/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 644 | 0 | |||
| This story starts late in the afternoon in southern Michigan, a million years ago. ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: The ICE Man Cometh | 05/26/2017 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 928 | 1 | |||
| This will be hard. For a moment, squeeze yourself into the tight shoes of one of America’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants. Eight million of you are...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Compounds in Workers' Comp | 05/25/2017 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 777 | 0 | |||
| CompPharma’s second research paper on compounds in workers’ comp was published last week. Authored by pharmacists and government affair...Read More | |||
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Keefe: WC Reform Proposals to Get Our Claims Industry Out of Legislative Cross-Hairs | 05/24/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 576 | 0 | |||
| We find it a bit puzzling that workers’ compensation reform continues to be such a focus of concern to the extent it is seen as a sticking point for our state’s budget. ...Read More | |||
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Sams: Formularies Grow in Popularity, but Which One to Use? | 05/22/2017 | |
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| By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 717 | 0 | |||
| A familiar labor vs. management battleground has sprung around the latest cost-control trend in workers’ comp: drug formularies. ...Read More | |||
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Wilson: Court Declares CMS Practice Unlawful but Withholds Injunction | 05/23/2017 | |
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| By: Rita Wilson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 713 | 0 | |||
| Earlier this year, Tower MSA summarized the California Insurance Guarantee Association’s (CIGA) case challenging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s (CMS) practice of claim...Read More | |||
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Young: Go With the Flo? | 05/19/2017 | |
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| Source: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 784 | 0 | |||
| We’re in one of those languid periods of California workers’ comp. ...Read More | |||
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Brannan: Our Formulary Is Model for Other States | 05/17/2017 | |
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| Source: Ryan Brannan | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 835 | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| In the midst of a nationwide opioid crisis, Texas implemented a prescription drug formulary in 2011 — not because it would save insurance companies money but because it could save lives. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: A New and Blurring Part of WC Reforms | 05/18/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 778 | 0 | |||
| A Chicago Democrat presented new Illinois workers' compensation reform legislation incorporating a “resource-based relative value scale,” or RBRVS, as the physician-health care payment system and a cost savings mega-plum for state employers and local governments....Read More | |||
