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THE CASE FOR LEAVE MANAGEMENT The current, lingering economic environment has shifted the focus of human resources and employee benefits in many companies away from retention to concentrating on improving productivity, driving down costs, and improving other returns. As organizations strive to do this, some alarming statistics have surfaced regarding employee use of benefits –… [Continue Reading]
To compete in today’s tightly controlled and heavily regulated workers’ compensation environment, payors and employers must manage limited resources wisely to positively impact injuries. Injuries happen despite measures taken to prevent or mitigate them. Simply knowing an injury occurred and its severity does not help organizations effectively manage treatment, employee time, and financial resources. Therefore,… [Continue Reading]
Treatment of chronic pain cases with chronic opioid therapy has created a costly conundrum for patients, providers and payers. As a chronic pain management involves a complex interaction between somatic, visceral and neuropathic pain with multiple psychosocial comorbid factors, physicians use multiple treatment approaches to manage chronic pain, including: medications, physicial therapy, exercise, massage, psychological… [Continue Reading]
OCM addresses challenge with “Smart” Diagnostic Management Program, which doubles a payer’s “managed” referrals for optimal savings, efficiency, and quality Parsippany, NJ (August 3, 2010)–WorkCompWire– – One Call Medical (OCM), the nation’s leading provider of diagnostic testing (including MRI and CT scans) and specialty services (e.g. transportation and interpretation), today announced findings from its Diagnostic… [Continue Reading]
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