Coordinating the human resources of claims organizations and making sure they can meet the ever-changing needs of clients is a front-burner issue in workers’ compensation.
Andrea Buhl, president of managed care operations for Sedgwick, offers her perspective on the factors impacting workforce resilience and what employers can do to support their people.
Workers’ Compensation Research Institute president and CEO John Ruser offers his perspective on the factors influencing inflation in workers’ comp claims: what’s driving costs up — and what’s helping to keep them down.
AWP has been the source of litigation, challenges and legislation for decades. CMS no longer allows AWP to be used as a basis for pricing drugs under Medicare.
One-third of companies estimate they will lay off 30% or more of their workforce next year. Here’s why workers’ comp leaders need to be a part of those decisions.
Kids’ Chance of America is working hard to bring post-secondary scholarships to children of workers who’ve been injured while on the job. And that all starts with Planning for the Future.
How data mining and predictive analytics can be used to design a return-to-work program that addresses psychosocial issues and other barriers to successful claim outcomes.
With everything employers have on their plates, why should they care about Medicare Set-Asides, or MSAs? The main reason is: MSAs facilitate workers’ compensation settlements.
New employees are disproportionately likely to sustain an injury on the job, so extra care and attention during their first year on the job can produce an outsized impact.
Stakeholders from across the workers’ comp industry listed the top challenges their organizations faced this past year in a survey conducted by Risk & Insurance at National Comp and online.