Leaders Speak

By Tammy Bradly, Vice President of Clinical Product Development, Coventry Anyone who has ever witnessed a traumatic event understands the mental anguish it can cause. You don’t have to be physically injured to suffer a mental blow. In workers’ compensation, we often do a great job caring for the physical injuries. But do we adequately… [Read more]

By Jack Bailey, Managing Director and Co-Founder, Bailey Southwell & Co. In last week’s column, I reviewed how trends at the payer level have created attractive industry dynamics for private equity. This still leaves unanswered the question of how these trends will affect businesses owners in the space and what the acquisition environment might look… [Read more]

By Jack Bailey, Managing Director and Co-Founder, Bailey Southwell & Co. Recent Acquisition Activity The flurry of activity over the last year, with a $1+ billion transaction seemingly announced every quarter, has been dizzying for many to track and understand. Many have wondered why large private equity firms continue to show significant interest in acquiring… [Read more]

By David Huth, Chief Operating Officer, Rising Medical Solutions In my first article, we looked at how advancements in the areas of psychosocial issue management, litigation strategies, and opioid prescribing have driven better claims performance in the past five years. In particular, we quantified what high performing claims organizations are doing significantly more of in… [Read more]

By David Huth, Chief Operating Officer, Rising Medical Solutions “Change” conflicts with the image that our field of workers’ compensation moves incrementally, at best. But if you look at what the better performing claims teams are doing, with changes over the past five years, you see a more dynamic reality. This is good news. Over… [Read more]

By Lori Daugherty, CEO, IMCS Group, Inc. Faster and better recoveries for injured workers, and spending our resources and money where it is most effective are the goals for the workers’ compensation system, now and in the future. What I’ve seen taking place in the workers’ compensation system over the last several decades makes me… [Read more]

By Lori Daugherty, CEO, IMCS Group, Inc. Payers are more in touch with the issues of the injured worker. That’s probably the biggest and most important change I’ve seen in 30+ years in the workers’ compensation system. That’s not to say the industry has not evolved; clearly, it has. There have been tremendous advancements in… [Read more]

By Pat Chavanu, Senior VP, National Accounts and Marketing at GENEX Services, LLC Last week, I shared news of Genex Services reaching a momentous milestone – 40 years serving the workers’ compensation industry. My last column reflected on key challenges that have occurred over those four decades which inspired the industry to evolve and adapt.… [Read more]

By Pat Chavanu, Senior VP, National Accounts and Marketing at GENEX Services, LLC This month Genex Services is celebrating its 40th anniversary, a significant accomplishment in this industry. For our company and staff, it’s a momentous occasion and cause for celebration. I personally have not been along for the entire ride but a weighty portion… [Read more]

By Phil Walls, RPh, Chief Clinical Officer, myMatrixx Breakthrough pain is typically defined as a sudden and usually brief flare-up or period of pain that occurs in a chronic pain patient that otherwise has been well managed with either narcotic or non-narcotic analgesics. In this discussion, we will focus on the use of long-acting opioids… [Read more]