Part One of Coventry’s 2017 Drug Trends Series reported the largest drop in Morphine Equivalent Dose (MED) in the last three years. As an indicator of increased chances for adverse outcomes, including death from overdose, these and other inroads are essential in the effort to curtail opioid misuse. To learn more about MED and its impact watch our latest video blog.
Alabama and Louisiana have declared states of emergency, which will affect pharmacy care in those states.
Comprehensive cloud-based estimating solution streamlines the appraisal process for Canadian automotive insurers and collision repairers and supports proper, safe vehicle repair.
Visualizing provider behavior to identify irregular activities can help reduce billions per year lost to insurance fraud, waste and abuse.
Ask almost anyone what’s wrong with health care in the U.S. and you’re likely to hear about runaway costs. The other common refrain is that for all we spend as a country, the results, too often, are only lackluster. One hoped-for remedy to the nation’s health care ills is so-called value-based contracting. This involves paying a fixed amount for a procedure—and for the results—rather than paying for each CPT code or procedure performed. Value-based scenarios are drawing more interest in group health. But how this setup would unfold in workers’ compensation remains less clear due to the industry environment.
New image viewer improves time to open images related to medical bills.
New offerings include enhanced CSI surveys, repair status messaging and online reputation management for collision repairers.
