When this injured worker self-weaned off opioids as a pain management medication, he turned to medical marijuana. The court had to decide who was responsible for payments.
In addition to updating job descriptions and assessing accommodations, employers should track cases of COVID and Long COVID, whether that means monitoring information from insurance companies or using an in-house method.
Milliman’s Mike Paczolt discusses an AI-based claims solution that uses group health benchmarking data to help workers’ comp payers and TPAs reduce costs and get injured workers the targeted care they need — faster.
Data-capturing technology can help management teams evaluate the safety of nearly every workplace and, in the process, predict and prevent worker injuries.
Jeff Gurtcheff, chief claims officer for CorVel, shares how the company’s new recruitment and training initiative, CorVel University, is looking to address the talent crisis.
Risk & Insurance editor-in-chief Dan Reynolds sat down with Nan-Wei Gong and Scott Sexton of FIGUR8 to discuss how they’re working to standardize and codify data that can help care teams better gauge an injured workers’ musculoskeletal recovery process.
Improving workers’ compensation outcomes requires addressing mental health issues. One often-overlooked factor is the critical impact of gut health on our minds.
At National Comp, four experts explore the use of technology to streamline the workers’ comp claim processes — and avoid lapses in the care of injured workers.
Regardless of whether mental health is compensable in a state, a panel of experts at this year’s National Comp will explain why it pays to ensure that injured workers feel supported in their recovery journeys.
Although they make up the single largest classification of work-related injuries, with proper commitment, employers can continue to make improvement in MSD injury rates.