“Focusing on outcomes, even with small additional costs up front, is poised to improve the overall injured worker experience both for employee and employer.”

Litigated workers’ comp claims are shown to be far more expensive than those that are not litigated. What determines which path a injured worker will follow may be surprisingly simple.

How do you know if the doctor you are seeing (or are planning to see) is any good? Maybe you got a referral. Maybe you have “heard good things.” Maybe you have read some reviews online on Healthgrades or Google or Yelp. But what do we really learn about from those sources? Good bedside manner?… View Article

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play a crucial role beyond price negotiations, focusing on clinical management, network strategies, and service. Effective PBMs manage costs, enhance care, and ensure transparency and security, addressing unique workers’ comp needs.

As more health care networks acquire individual physician practices, the workers’ compensation industry must address the medical management costs and patient outcomes associated with this trend.

Discover the benefits of timely physical therapy in enhancing patient recovery and reducing claim costs.

Workers’ comp and employment law aren’t the same — but they do have some overlap.

Engaging with behavioral health factors that can delay recovery early on can be a boon for injured workers and their employers alike.

PEOs take off much of the administrative workload of running a strong workers’ comp program.

A wide array of clinical expertise can help PBM pharmacists offer the best possible service to payers.

In conversation, Gallagher Bassett’s Johnny Taylor shares his thoughts on physician dispensing, behavioral health and more.

The decline in opioid prescribing is reshaping pharmacy costs in workers’ comp, allowing a more diverse range of concerns to come to the fore.

Multiple factors affect PBM pricing. These are the questions payers need to ask to find the right fit (and get the most savings) for their company.

After launching a pay-as-you-go workers’ comp solution, NYSIF set out to discover how it was impacting the policyholder experience. The results were clear.

Employers can get ahead of on-the-job injuries by refining their job descriptions with data-driven analyses.

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.

After initially struggling to gain traction, the district’s fitness program drew in employees through incentives and social activities until participation became its own reward.

The rise of Big Data has allowed for the early identification of at-risk workers comp claims, but siloed data has long been an obstacle. Effective data sharing is now allowing workers comp professionals and providers to leverage data as a fundamental driving force to transform the injured workers experience – claims scoring is part of that transformation.

A look at NCCI’s Medical Fee Schedules and Workers’ Compensation 2023 shows where workers’ comp spend is coming from.

CompPharma looked at current trends within the workers’ compensation pharmacy landscape and found payers are looking for more actionable data from their PBMs.