Managed Care

Trends That are Paving the Way for Successful Managed Care Programs in 2025

As workers’ compensation leaders prepare for the coming year, key trends in managed care programs are rapidly emerging. By proactively identifying and responding to these developments, leaders can significantly enhance long-term claims outcomes.

How the Whole Worker Approach Is Transforming Claims and Outcomes

AI, VR and CBT: How This National Comp Panel Aims to Immerse Audiences in the Healing Experience

Worker Injured While Traveling? How Workers’ Comp Should Respond

One Claim at a Time: How Agriculture Manufacturer AGCO Focuses on Each Claim and Puts Injured Workers First

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Nurse Case Managers’ Holistic View of Injured Workers Positively Impacts Claims

Comorbid conditions have been known to lengthen claims due to high medical costs and increased risk of litigation. Enter the nurse case manager, a few healthy tricks up their sleeve.

Learning from the Best: Nurse Case Managers Educate Claims Professionals on Injury

A workers’ compensation claims professional can learn a thing or two about injury from the nurses who manage their claims.

The Quest for the Straight Dope

Workers’ comp insurers want to know if marijuana can effect better outcomes than opioids.

Telemedicine’s Urgent Questions

With more buzz than proven capability around telemedicine, buyers should ask critical questions.

Technology Gives the Gift of Movement

Advanced medical technology is costly, but greatly improves quality of life for workers with catastrophic injuries.

Addressing Behavioral and Social Issues

Identifying and understanding an employee’s behavioral and social issues will enhance recovery.

Rehab Rx: Return to Work

Return to work should be an active part of the recovery process, not just the end goal.

Make a Decision and Move the Needle

American Airlines needed to take aggressive action to resolve 6,000 lingering workers’ compensation claims.

The Claims Experience, Reimagined

For Disney’s Tim East, the way forward is to change the way we think about — and talk about — workers’ compensation.

NWCDC Sessions: Nov. 30, 2016

These sessions are among the many presentations on Nov. 30 at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference® and Expo.

A Passion for Protecting Workers’ Lives

 The 2016 Teddy Award workers’ compensation winners share the same fierce commitment to safeguarding the lives and livelihoods of their people.

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The NWCDC is committed to help you stay abreast of industry trends and manage disability and work comp’s toughest challenges.

Advocacy at the Forefront

Employers adopting advocacy practices derive better outcomes from their efforts to improve claims experiences.

Quality Care Outside the ER

More employers turn to triage nurses to determine whether a hospital emergency room visit is necessary.

Workers’ Compensation Conference Program Released

NWCDC’s presentations offer leading-edge strategies from employers and other experts to mitigate workers’ comp and disability challenges.

Audit Leave Management Vendors

Outsourcers often provide expertise and real-time systems, but oversight is essential.

Bundled Care’s Place in Workers’ Comp

Bundled care programs are one alternative care model emphasizing quality over quantity.

Bluegrass State Leads the Opioid Fight

Kentucky, long embroiled in the opioid epidemic, is turning its challenges into strategies that can help other states drive change.

Managing Service Providers

Quality assurance audits help risk managers, insurers and TPAs counteract weaknesses in delivery of services.

Let’s Keep Adding Value

Focusing on improving outcomes will create a better health care system and benefit injured workers.