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Enlyte’s Q2 Medical Price Index Shows Increases In Comp and Auto Injury Services
Medical costs nationally have risen 11% in workers’ comp and 5% in auto first-party over the past four years, despite a slowing of growth over the past two years, according to new data released by Enlyte today.
Return-to-work strategies for LGBTQ+ Injured Employees
Celebrate Pride Month by reflecting on the progress of LGBTQ+ equality and addressing health care disparities. Join Genex case manager Chikita Mann, MSN, RN, CCM, as she explores this crucial topic.
Looking Beyond the Numbers of Enlyte’s Medical Price Index
In this quarter’s Enlyte Executive Insight, Michele Hibbert, senior vice president of regulatory compliance management, discusses the latest results from Enlyte’s medical price index and how it impacts the industry.
Enlyte Quarterly Medical Price Index - Q2
As reported by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) for April 2024, the consumer price index in the United States increased 3.4% over the preceding 12 months. The medical care index rose 0.4% in April 2024 after rising 0.5% in March 2024. The index for hospital services increased 0.6% over the month and the index for physician’s services increased 0.1% which would be compared to Enlyte’s data in this report.
Enlyte Pharmacists Discuss a Changing Workers’ Comp Pharmacy Landscape
Workers' compensation pharmacy is constantly evolving, from tackling the opioid crisis, to the rise of compounding pharmacies, to the pandemic. Amidst these changes, pharmacy benefit managers must constantly evolve to address an array of industry changes. In our final Enlytening Conversation our pharmacists discuss how changes within the industry as a whole including physician shortages, digital therapeutics, biopsychosocial approaches, new drug treatments, and much more are driving the need for constant planning and innovation to stay a step ahead in this ever-changing landscape.
Enlyte Pharmacy Experts Speak on Turning Challenges Into Opportunities
Clients face numerous challenges in managing their workers' compensation pharmacy programs including capturing all pharmacy utilization and costs as well as addressing abuse by price opportunists. In this Enlytening Conversation we’ll dig deeper into these issues and others to find proactive opportunities to address pharmacy challenges through identification, regulation, and continually reevaluating outcomes and analytics to better understand how the right pharmacy partner can positively impact overall spend and claims outcomes.