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WorkCompRecap: Catastrophic COVID!

October 15, 2020 - WorkCompWire

Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features a new Guest Post from Paradigm’s Dr. Michael Choo on catastrophic workers’ comp claims for COVID-19.

In his piece, Dr. Choo examines two cases that represent the uncommon but harsh reality of COVID-19’s potential to become complex or catastrophic claims, which are rare in frequency but have disproportionately high impacts on medical expenditures. Dr. Choo also notes that catastrophic COVID-19 referrals they’ve seen have displayed the high prevalence of complex organ injuries that would typically be associated with “outlier” claims having very expensive acute medical costs, compounded by long-term medical and rehabilitation costs arising from residual damages/injuries related to lungs, heart, brain, spinal cord, kidneys, and even limbs.

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