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The More You Know: Health Care Literacy’s Impact on Return to Work

… the injured employee to learn from an occupational health perspective. What else can leaders do to increase health care literacy? …
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Channeling Your Inner Resilience to Foster Return to Work and Productivity

… see the “big picture” — both good and bad — and determine realistic expectations, what you can do to make things go well, and choose to focus on your strengths and positives of the situation. …
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Go Paperless: How Electronic Payment and Billing Solutions Help Digitize the Claims Process

… can assure you will be in compliance ahead of time, so you aren’t scrambling when a state you do business in passes a law mandating eBilling, electronic payment and electronic remittance …
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Overview of the 2019 Texas Department of Insurance Workers’ Compensation Network Report Card

… over $12K per claim 1 .  Texas was leading the nation in utilization for nine of the ten top diagnostic groups. Return-to-work rates were running in the low 60 th percentile and injured … reflected in the Report Card. The results measure medical costs and utilization only. They do not include indemnity savings. Claim mix is different across all Networks (i.e. legacy, …
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The Collision Repair Industry Gains from Giving Back

… Does your organization give to charity? How do you demonstrate to your customers that you're in business for more than making a profit? We'd …
News Release

Mitchell Issues First Quarter 2019 Industry Trends Report

… In “5G: What Do High-flying Predictions Mean for the Property and Casualty and Collision Repair Industries?” …
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Congress Considers a Flurry of Opioid Bills
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Improving Date of Injury Outcomes with Pharmacy Management

… will be a whirlwind for Andrew and his family. The stress and pain of the situation will be top of mind as they receive doctors’ evaluations, medical equipment and prescriptions. As Andrew … and Prevention." Additionally, an injured worker may also already be on a medication that they do not disclose, leading to potential negative drug interactions. …
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How Employers and Insurers Can Create The Most Effective Return to Work Programs
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Why High-Impact Drugs Are Taking a Bigger Piece of Pharm Spend

… represents a major area of pharmaceutical development with significant costs. These products do have evidence to support their use, but place in therapy and proper patient selection are … and a growing source of concern in the workers’ compensation space. They’re ranking in that top spot among the therapeutic classes at 18.5 percent of total drug cost in 2022 and displacing … much higher in spend, well, they’re only fifth as far as the volume of scripts goes. So, we do target two categories in the trend reports that we put out. There’s a lot of topicals on the …
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Drug of the Month: Insights Into COVID-19 Vaccines and Workers' Comp

… works to distribute these vaccines and restore normalcy to everyday life, what key information do you need to know? This Drug of the Month article will cover the following: Overview of the …
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Therapeutic Alternatives—A Closer Look

… when discussing alternatives to brand-name medications: What are therapeutic alternatives? How do they differ from generic drugs? Let’s first look at generic drugs. According to the Federal …
Blog

As robots come to work, our tasks will include safety and quality

… could see welcome declines in catastrophic incidents. We might also see fewer of us having to do less-fulfilling work. And yet it’s possible we’ll have to confront simultaneous shifts in …
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The Future of Humane Automation in Property & Casualty Claims and Collision Repair: Emotion AI

… is the notion that artificial intelligence technologies can recognize human emotions. To do so, AI looks for cues that may include facial expressions, or micro-movements, eye movements, …
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New Vehicles: Technology Impact on Collision Repair Costs

… although not every newly redesigned vehicle experienced an increase in claims severity, most do. The primary cost drivers are the increased use of sensors, radar systems (especially on the …
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The New Repair Network

… What Do Proper and Safe Repairs Require? …
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Understanding Predictive Analytics For Workers' Compensation Data Analysis

… to our workflows today and workers’ compensation in the future. However, the three terms do have a connection. Machine learning is defined as giving computers the ability to learn …
White Paper

How and When to Request an IME

… into all the information pertinent to ensuring the right doctor is selected. For example, do you know if certain physicians have sanctions against them, or if they’re board-certified? If …
Podcast

Gauging the Impact of High-Impact Drugs in Workers’ Comp

… represent a major area of pharmaceutical development with significant costs. These products do have evidence to support use, but place in therapy and proper patient selection are critical, … and are a continued source of concern in the workers’ compensation space, ranking in the top spot among the therapeutic classes at 18.4% of total drug cost in 2023, and that’s an … may be a viable option for select patients. You know, that’s always a consideration, but they do require careful oversight. And, in many cases, given their lack of demonstrated superiority …
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StateWatch Fall 2016

… some services at more than 20 times their actual cost simply because they are in a position to do so. Authors of the study, published in Health Affairs , stated that markups for hospital … proponents of the state's ColoradoCare initiative , a measure on the Nov. 8 ballot that would do away with insurer-approved networks and allow patients to choose their own doctors, argue that …
News Release

Enlyte Announces Its 2024 Heart of Case Management Award Winners

… Donna Chestovich, who quickly gained the pilot’s trust and became dedicated to helping him do what was unthinkable weeks earlier — return to work. Donna quickly began coordinating care to …
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Five Business Trends that Will Become “Business as Usual”

… of digital transformation in two months.” Being forced to make dramatic changes in the way we do business has been neither easy nor painless. …
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The Power of Technology: Six Ways to Improve Casualty Claim Outcomes

… any given day, an adjuster could have somewhere between three to 15 different programs open to do their job—for example, a claims system, a bill review system, a scheduling system, a pharmacy …
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Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) Frequently Asked Questions

… decisions regarding an individual's ability to return to work safely and productively. How do I secure FCE services for my injured employee? Apricus offers streamlined workers’ …
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Regulatory Hot Topics Impacting Property & Casualty

… and customer safety, all while accommodating supply issues, labor shortages and inflation. On top of all of those issues, the United States is also dealing with “The Great Resignation,” with … seem like much, but getting into the hundred-thousand-dollar range is a different story. How do we handle situations where someone tested positive for COVID, files a claim in a no loss time …
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Advanced Driver-Assistance System Trends and Challenges

… the first seatbelts offered in the 1950s. Today's advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) do more than reduce the risk of injuries during a crash; some features are designed to help avoid … equipped most of their vehicles with AEB, 5 including the Chevy Malibu which earned an IIHS Top Safety Pick + Award when equipped with the Low Speed Forward Automatic Braking system. With …
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StateWatch: Early Spring 2018

… muscle relaxer carisoprodol for acute pain, under the guidelines. The proposed rules, which “do not constitute medical advice or a standard of medical care,” exclude claims in which the … reporting for employers without workers’ compensation insurance. By law, Texas employers that do not opt into the state system must submit two types of forms to the DWC, the notice states. …
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StateWatch: Early Spring 2018

… muscle relaxer carisoprodol for acute pain, under the guidelines. The proposed rules, which “do not constitute medical advice or a standard of medical care,” exclude claims in which the … reporting for employers without workers’ compensation insurance. By law, Texas employers that do not opt into the state system must submit two types of forms to the DWC, the notice states. …