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Melinda Hayes: Interpretation in Workers’ Compensation: Quality Service at a Lower Cost

March 6, 2012 - WorkCompWire

Melinda Hayes

As the workers’ compensation industry redefines cost containment strategies, we must include emerging industries such as interpretation. Payers should apply the same level of scrutiny to interpretation services and its appropriate intervention points as they do to case management, utilization review and bill review. Let’s look at a quick history… [Continue Reading]

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Mark Wilhelm: 4 Ways SIGs Can Ensure Success

February 27, 2012 - WorkCompWire

Mark Wilhelm Safety National

Over the years, the popularity of self-insurance has grown steadily. When rates for primary insurance skyrocketed in the 1970s, companies turned to self-insurance as a more economical way to cover workers’ compensation and many continue to pursue this alternative risk funding option to this day. Employers that didn’t possess… [Continue Reading]

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Mark Wilhelm: Self-Insuring Workers’ Compensation: All the Right Incentives

February 20, 2012 - WorkCompWire

Mark Wilhelm Safety National

The subject of self-insuring workers’ compensation has received a lot of criticism over the years, however, it continues to be a successful and cost-effective business option for employers when funding their workers’ compensation needs. Whether it be a large employer self-insuring alone or smaller employers that band together to form… [Continue Reading]

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Anthony Cuva: Designing an Enterprise IT Platform: 9 Things You Should Know

February 13, 2012 - WorkCompWire

Tony Cuva

Today, workers’ compensation claims are often complicated by a number of factors, including a high volume of transactions; manual, labor-intensive business processes; delayed communications, and many other administrative hassles. Workers’ compensation leaders realize that technology is… [Continue Reading]

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Anthony Cuva: 7 Technology Tools to Automate Specialty Referrals

February 7, 2012 - WorkCompWire

Tony Cuva

Although claims frequency has slowed, severity and complexity of claims are on the rise. To help address this challenge, many claim organizations are now partnering with service providers in ancillary areas of the claims process. Traditionally, the specialty referral process lacked a sophisticated IT infrastructure…[Continue Reading]

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Jay Krueger: The Use of Marijuana in Medical Treatment of Chronic Pain

January 24, 2012 - WorkCompWire

Jay Krueger

A debate has arisen in the medical community regarding the appropriateness of medical marijuana in treating pain. Proponents claim that it is not as harmful or addictive as the most common pain medications and is effective in treating pain that is not responsive to other therapies. Several organizations within… [Continue Reading]

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Eileen Auen: Exploring the Differences in Workers’ Compensation and Group Health Pharmacy Programs

January 17, 2012 - WorkCompWire

Eileen Auen, Chairman and CEO, PMSI

Unless you have a detailed understanding of the health care and insurance marketplaces, you may be one of the many who think that there is little difference between group health insurance and workers’ compensation benefits. Having been privy to both of these industries, I am frequently asked about these differences… [Continue Reading]

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Leaders Speak: The Year in Review…

December 12, 2011 - WorkCompWire

As 2011 winds down, it seems like an appropriate time to re-feature all of the great content that has been provided by Leaders from the industry for our Leaders Speak Section. So, as we close out the year and prep to bring you more all new content in 2012, we’ll be adding new links to the list each day for you to check out!
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Dr. Brian Grant: Locus of Control

November 28, 2011 - WorkCompWire

Dr Brian Grant of MCN

A theme that I have come to see with patients in treatment and those whom I have evaluated for various claims is the concept of “Locus of Control (LOC).” This is defined in the following web reference as: “An individual’s generalized expectations concerning where control over subsequent events resides. In other words, who or what is responsible for what happens… [Continue Reading]

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Dr. Brian Grant: Primary Prevention of Workplace Injury and Disability

November 21, 2011 - WorkCompWire

Dr Brian Grant of MCN

Every injury and disability claim must be examined individually and generalizations used cautiously. With that caveat, it is apparent and obvious to anyone who has been involved in reviewing and managing injury and disability claims that who is hired is often a much more useful determinant of injury and disability occurrence than what happens once an individual is… [Continue Reading]

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