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Five Initial Evaluation Issues That May Delay Return to Work
When there’s a return to work delay, practitioners often look for problems that occurred during the course of treatment. However, as Mariellen Blue, Genex’s National Director of Case Management Services, tells us in today’s Inside Workers’ Comp, you may have to go back a little further in the recovery plan to find the answer. Check out the five reasons why the initial evaluation may be the culprit.
Sizing Up the Physical Demand Analysis
The workers’ comp industry is always searching for new ways to increase safety in the workplace. But there’s one tool that’s been available for quite some time that, if used more often, could go a long way to reaching this goal. On today’s Inside Workers’ Comp, Mike Milidonis, Ergonomics and Employer Services Manager at Genex, tells us about the physical demand analysis and how it can play a larger role in keeping workers healthy.
Do You Need a Medicare Set-Aside?
Workers' compensation payers are under increasing pressure to consider and protect Medicare's interests when settling claims. In this edition of Inside Workers’ Comp, Deborah Robinson Stewart, National Manager of Medicare Services at Genex, breaks down the basics of MSAs and offers insight of when they should be established.
Empowering Injured Workers
There’s been a lot of talk about injured worker advocacy and empowerment in workers’ compensation. But what exactly does that mean? Genex’s 2017 Heart of Case Management Award winner Lisa Armstrong, BSN, CRRN, RN-BC, has a few ideas to keep your injured workers invested in their own recovery.
Robocop Talks About Run for Sheriff and Upcoming NWCDC Session
In this edition of Workers’ Comp, we catch up with “Robocop” Romero who talks about his run for county sheriff and previews his NWCDC session with Genex Branch Manager Trish Elizalde next week.
On the Border - State Regulations & Comp Costs
Did you know if a worker gets injured in one state, but lives in another, he may be restricted from receiving case management services from a nurse in the state he resides? Genex’s Chikita Mann, MSN, RN, CCM, Branch Supervisor, raised this issue in a recent Professional Case Management column. She explains the ramifications of nursing state law restrictions and how they impact return-to-work and claim costs in our latest edition of Inside Workers’ Comp.
Is Your Data Program Dated?
Data analytics programs are supposed to help you determine workers’ comp trends and predictive analysis. So why isn’t your program delivering? In today’s Inside Workers’ Comp, data analytics expert Jim Harris explains how factors such as aging claims systems and inconsistent data input could be preventing you from capturing, reporting, and trending the information you need to make important claims decisions.
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