Workers’ comp professionals are seeing delayed recovery as an increased challenge in claims – as injured employees may not be progressing along a medically reasonable and expected time frame. However, it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly why the delay is occurring in order to address the issue. We may believe the injured employee is simply not complying with treatment and malingering.
According to the famous futurist Ray Kurzweil, “we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century—it will be more like 20,000 years of progress.” We are at an incredibly important moment in time—one that I believe historians will look back on as a pivotal time in the advancement of technology and in the way humans interact with it.
This quarter, Mitchell was featured in Claims Journal, where Vice President of Medical Management Services Jackie Payne shared insights into how precertification and utilization review play a role in workers’ compensation and present an effective method in the defense against rising medical costs.
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