Workers' Comp
Property Casualty 360: The opioid epidemic in workers' comp
December 18, 2017
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Employers can use these five strategies to manage opioid issues in their organizations and help injured workers heal.
Employers can use these five strategies to manage opioid issues in their organizations and help injured workers heal.
A case manager for 25 years, Deborah Buckley, RN, BS, continually demonstrates her innate ability to address the total impact of illness and injury including psychological, physical and social needs to help injured workers return to their livelihoods.
As medical costs continue to rise, workers’ compensation payors are looking for methods to identify expenses that can be controlled and ways to handle claims more efficiently.
Medical management—utilization review specifically—has historically been handled manually, and tends to require a great deal of administrative oversight and dependencies on the adjuster.