While we gather around the table on Thursday, many of us will give thanks for the blessings in our lives. Will workers’ comp be among them? In this edition of Inside Workers’ Comp, we asked industry experts Chikita Mann, Mark
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The Compliance Corner: Telemedicine: New Innovations in the Old Program
Telemedicine is the method of delivering health care electronically through applications like smart phones, email, and skype. Telemedicine started over 40 years ago with the intention of enabling health care providers, mainly hospitals, to provide services to patients in remote areas.
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The Compliance Corner: Understanding MACRA in the P&C Industry: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
A change is in the wind, or more like a tornado, when it comes to new healthcare reforms, particularly on the payment side. In 2019, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) will be introduced requiring new quality measurements.
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The Compliance Corner: Using Subluxation Codes vs. Dislocation Codes
Before implementation of ICD-10-CM, during the archaic times of ICD-9-CM (was it really only 16 months ago?!), chiropractic physicians typically reported diagnosis codes from the 739 series of “non-allopathic lesions” which included “segmental and somatic dysfunction.”
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The Compliance Corner: What Lies Ahead for Medical Marijuana Insurance Coverage?
Prescription protocols for medical marijuana are changing monthly due to new studies promoting use and regulatory bodies that allow the prescription of medical marijuana in their states. Medical marijuana, sometimes referred to as “Medical Jane,” has been used for medical purposes since 1550 BC in ancient Egypt to treat inflammation.
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The Importance of Automotive Diagnostics in Collision Repair
Vehicle complexity has exploded in the last decade. Collision repair used to be about sheet metal, headlamp and bumper replacement; now it involves more and more sophisticated electronics. Essentially repairers must be prepared to fix a computer network on wheels.
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The Opioid Epidemic: Using Opioid UDS to Empower Better Outcomes
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2014, more than 28,000 people died of opioid overdoses, 129 people every day as a result of drug poisoning, and 61 percent are pharmaceutical opioid or heroin related. High- profile deaths from opioid overdose have brought into the headlines obscure words from our world— fentanyl, hydrocodone, buprenorphine, quantitative mass urine assay, genetic dependency analysis and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.