From high praise to a spiraling crash, opioid-based pain medications are out of favor. Once thought to be the solution to chronic pain, opioids opened the door to an even bigger and scarier addiction epidemic — one that menaces the workers' comp industry and the population in general.
Let’s look at how mental state affects health and recovery outcomes and how your pharmacy program might aid in managing mental health issues.
In the world of workers’ compensation, our responsibility is to help those who are hurt not only get back to work, but also return to the life they enjoyed pre-injury. Extremities can be lost in a catastrophic event on the job or from complications like infection. These types of life-changing events often call for use of prosthetics.
In the past five years, terms such as advocacy, engagement, coaching, and even “whole-person approach” have been widely discussed within workers’ compensation — for good reason.
Successfully managing workers’ compensation claims requires a delicate balance of connectivity, expertise, and focus.
Let’s say goodbye to the term ancillary when it comes to caregiving in workers’ compensation.
For many employees, remote work started as a temporary displacement from office worksites due to COVID-related shutdowns.