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By Teresa Williams, MSW, LCSW, Managing Partner, HomeCare Connect Some injured and ill workers need to transfer from hospitals to post-acute care (PAC) facilities to continue healing before they can receive home healthcare. Gaps in the continuity of care can arise during the transition, gaps that can affect recovery time and outcomes. Finding the right… [Read more]

Enlytened Trends Report helps risk professionals navigate the road ahead While risk managers are accustomed to managing change on a daily basis, the seismic shift brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has presented these professionals with unprecedented challenges. Though vaccines, treatments and health protocols have allowed us to gradually emerge from the worst of the… [Read more]

By Michelle Despres, PT, CEAS II, REAS, CETS, Vice President of Physical Therapy, One Call According to a recent Gallup report, U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, with 57 percent of U.S. and Canadian workers feeling stressed daily – a percentage that has been on the rise since 20091. Pile on… [Read more]

The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to adapt our workplaces as never before. It changed the way in which many of us work at least temporarily; for others, more permanently as some organizations make the decision to adopt long-term strategies for their workforce based on lessons learned from the pandemic. As a business, Healthesystems’ responsibility is… [Read more]

Understand the questions to ask when choosing a network of doctors and facilities to treat your employees injured on the job – not all PPOs are the same! By Ilene Wachs, President, Horizon Casualty Services, Inc. New Jersey ranks #2 in the nation in cost of workers’ compensation insurance (California is #1) and almost half… [Read more]

By: Stan Smith, Vice President, Post-Acute Care, Paradigm; and Jennifer Brockman, Vice President, Orthopedic and Spine, Paradigm The workers’ compensation system has many attributes that make it challenging to navigate─unique state-mandated treatment guidelines and state-regulated fee schedule reimbursement structures are just two examples. However, there is one aspect that is the same in any sector… [Read more]

Before starting HomeCare Connect, its founders asked workers’ comp payers about the problems they ran into with current ancillary providers of home health services. Issues included: Sluggish response to referrals. Trouble staffing hospital discharges. Poor customer service. Reporting issues.  Spotty communication.  Slow, inaccurate billing. So, HomeCare Connect committed to doing business with a sense of… [Read more]

By Cem Kus, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, MTI America Employers, risk professionals, workers compensation insurance executives and third-party claims administrators already understand the underlying importance of ancillary services when it comes to helping employees after they’ve suffered a work-related injury or illness. What they may not realize, and COVID-19 reinforces, is these services –… [Read more]

By Linda Colsen, VP of Product Management, One Call When people are asked to name the most important things in life, health and home are two of the top five answers given.1 So it makes sense that when these two worlds collide in workers’ compensation, cases can become more complex in nature. Instead of receiving… [Read more]

A Q&A with Gus Tschaar, Chief Bill Review Officer, Paradigm Innovation in surgical implant technology undoubtedly benefits injured workers, but it also means increased billing complexity for payers. This, in turn, creates ongoing challenges while trying to manage dozens of details for injured worker cases. Paradigm’s surgical implant cost management platform is designed to deliver… [Read more]