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Friday, August 9, 2019

WCRI Finds Little Connection Between Provider Pay, Worker Outcomes

  • by Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter)
  • National
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Legal
  • -  2 shares

Paying medical providers more to treat injured workers doesn’t substantially improve worker outcomes, but it does seem to increase the amount of care provided, according

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Friday, August 9, 2019

WCI Conference Promises Sharp Debate on Recent Court Rulings

  • by William Rabb (Reporter)
  • State: Florida
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Legal
  • -  0 shares

A woman denied benefits after tripping over her dog and a challenge to the constitutionality of Florida's system that allows expert medical advisers to deny

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Thursday, August 8, 2019

WCIRB Recommends 5.7% Rate Cut for 2020

  • State: California
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Legal
  • -  1 share

California’s advisory pure premium rate is poised to fall again in 2020 with the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau recommending a 5.7% cut.

The WCIRB’s

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Thursday, August 8, 2019

Highmark, BrickStreet Fined for Error Leading to Rate Hike; PCRB Under Consent Order

  • by William Rabb (Reporter)
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Insurance
  • -  0 shares

Thanks to a reporting error that wreaked havoc on workers' compensation premiums over the past year, the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau will have regulators looking

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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Proposes Med-Legal Fee Schedule Draws Tepid Response

  • by Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
  • State: California
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Legal
  • -  9 shares

The Division of Workers’ Compensation on Tuesday proposed a Medical-Legal Fee Schedule that would pay flat fees for initial, follow-up and supplemental evaluations to a

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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Report Shows Only Two Doctors in State Will Evaluate Black Lung Cases

  • by William Rabb (Reporter)
  • State: Kentucky
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Legal
  • -  0 shares

Just as many miner advocates and claimants' attorneys predicted when the Kentucky Legislature passed House Bill 2 last year, very few doctors who meet the

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Study Links Injured Workers' Initial Opioid Prescriptions, Long-Term Use

  • by Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter)
  • National
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Legal
  • -  4 shares

Initial opioid prescriptions of as short as five to nine days are associated with an increased chance of an injured worker who was previously opioid-free

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Burned Janitor Wins Big Settlement for Comp and for Tort Claim

  • by William Rabb (Reporter)
  • State: North Carolina
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Insurance
  • -  0 shares

In many workers' comp claims involving a temporary staffing agency, the end-client company is quick to argue the temp firm was the employer and must

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Monday, August 5, 2019

Copy Service Companies Pleased With Proposed Fee Schedule Changes

  • by Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter)
  • State: California
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Legal
  • -  4 shares

Copy shops are pleased with a California Division of Workers’ Compensation proposal to update the fee schedule for professional photocopy services that would increase the

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Monday, August 5, 2019

Stop-Loss Rule in 1997 Still Fueling Litigation

  • by William Rabb (Reporter)
  • State: Texas
  • Topic: Top
  • - Popular with: Employer
  • -  0 shares

After 18 years of administrative decisions, court rulings and appeals-court reversals and remands, a dispute over hospital reimbursements for unusually extensive treatments of injured workers

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