We haven’t reached mid-year 2019, and the United States has already experienced several severe weather events, including a polar vortex and many hail storms in the Midwest, massive flooding in the Northern Plains, and heavy El Niño rains in California.
Technology is one of the hottest topics in insurance, as Insurtech innovations continue to disrupt the industry. Between improving customer experiences and relationships, helping contain costs and using data to improve decision-making, technology has been and will continue to make significant improvements in Property & Casualty claims handling.
New opioid-limiting legislation has been signed into law in Oklahoma.
CompPharma's 2018 Annual Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers' Comp found that, in the past eight years, drug spend has decreased 31.5% among those surveyed in workers’ compensation. Part of this is due to increased focus on dangerous opioid prescribing behaviors and the implementation of state-mandated formularies. Opioid spend has decreased for the same group by around 18.22% in the past year and payers and PBM’s have been able to reduce opioid spend by about one third in the last two years.
From gunshot wounds to addiction recovery, winners of this year's Genex honors went a long way to help injured emplo
A drug’s Average Wholesale Price (AWP) is a simple benchmark for distinguishing the cost of one medication from that of another.
Three case managers were selected from more than a thousand highly skilled professionals to be named 2018 Heart of Case Management Award winners.