Workers Compensation

Jul 09 2010

Coventry Gets Slammed for Workers’ Comp PPO Issue

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Coventry gets slapped with a two hundred-million-plus dollar damage award for failing to comply with Louisiana's PPO statute. Ouch that hurts. A vivid example of the need to pay careful…

Jun 02 2010

BusinessWire

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One Call Medical, the nation’s leading provider of diagnostic test scheduling for Worker’s Compensation payers, today announced its acquisition of STOPS, a national leader in high quality transportation and interpretation services

May 24 2010

HealthLeadersMedia

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Occupational healthcare provider U.S. HealthWorks today announced the acquisition of Technimed Occupational Medicine and its two healthcare centers in Vernon, and Commerce, CA

May 20 2010

Workers’ Compensation Update

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The NCCI Annual Issue Symposium always provides useful insight on the state of workers' compensation insurance. The recently held 2010 version was no exception and the presentation and video of…

Apr 09 2010

BusinessWire

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StrataCare, LLC, a market and technology leader in workers’ compensation medical bill review acquired the MedBillPro™ division of CS Stars LLC, a business unit of Marsh, Inc

Feb 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Government workers were far more likely to report that they had been injured or fallen ill at work in 2008 and had to take time off compared to private sector employees.

Feb 24 2010

BusinessWire

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U.S. HealthWorks, an operator of occupational healthcare centers, announced the acquisition of all three healthcare centers, expanding the number medical centers to 131 nationwide

Feb 19 2010

property-casualty.com

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Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited will acquire workers’ compensation insurer Zenith National Insurance Corp. in Woodland Hills, Calif., in a $1.4 billion cash deal

Feb 03 2010

Workers’ Compensation and Medicare

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Many states have created workers' compensation fee schedules based on Medicare reimbursement for physicians. Doing so can create traps if the frequent changes in the Medicare payment mechanisms are not…

Jan 27 2010

Older Employees and Workers’ Compensation

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While employees over 65 are a very small part of the work force, their numbers are growing and the recession likely will keep people working longer. These employees have some…

Jan 15 2010

A Few Physicians Account for a Lot of Workers’ Comp Spending

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Health care costs account for over half of workers' compensation spending. More attention is being given to drivers of this spending and a new study identifies a small group of…

Dec 14 2009

Business Wire

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U.S. HealthWorks Medical Group Acquires Bayport Occupational Medical Center

Dec 11 2009

How Many Work-Related Injuries Are There?

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The GAO looks at OSHA's auditing of workplace injury reporting and finds that there may be under-reporting. To the extent this is true, the very real and significant decline in…

Dec 04 2009

New NCCI Report on Effect of Increasing Workers’ Comp Benefits

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An NCCI report indicates that increasing time-off benefits in workers' compensation insurance results in employees staying off the job for a longer period of time, incurring higher work comp costs…

Nov 04 2009

Workers’ Comp Health Costs

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Researchers at the University of California suggest that if workers' compensation medical care were moved to general health insurance, the administrative savings would pay for expanded access in reform bills.