Often the signs that opioids are being abused or misused can go undetected in a workers’ compensation claim because critical trends and information may not be easily visible. As a result, missing the various red flag situations can have serious safety consequences for the injured worker and negatively impact the outcome of the claim… [Continue Reading]
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White Paper: Healthesystems Produces Savings of up to 80% on Repackaged Drugs
Tampa, FL – Healthesystems, a workers’ compensation pharmacy and ancillary benefits management provider, recently published outcome results from their repackaged drug and physician dispensing management program. Repackaged drugs and physician dispensing are practices contributing to the fast growing costs of prescription drug… [Continue Reading]
NextImage Medical: Image is Everything
San Diego, CA – Radiology services management provider Next Image Medical’s CEO Liz Griggs and Chief of Radiology Dr. Mark Cooper recently provided WorkCompWire with some of their thoughts on the importance of imaging and its impact when it comes to driving claims costs… [Continue Reading]
Next Image Medical: “When Aging is Important”
California – Radiology services management provider Next Image Medical’s CEO Liz Griggs and Chief of Radiology Dr. Mark Cooper recently provided WorkCompWire with some of their thoughts on the increased popularity of Aging requests that they’re receiving. “Aging requests are becoming more prevalent with many of our… [Continue Reading]
Can a Focus on Leave Management Affect Your Bottom Line?
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 –… [Read more]
The Impact of Comorbid Conditions on Workers’ Compensation Medical Costs
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,… [Read more]
Narcotics Abuse in Workers’ Compensation
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… [Read more]
One Call Medical’s Proprietary Analytics Reveal Typical Payer Experiences Two-Thirds “Unmanaged” Diagnostic Radiology Referrals in Workers’ Compensation
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… [Read more]