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]
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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]