Getting injured workers back to the job in a timely and efficient manner while controlling workers’ comp claims costs is a daily conundrum for employers and insurers. For this reason, GENEX Services, a national provider of workers’ compensation clinical services, …
A new whitepaper by Coventry, a company that offers workers’ compensation cost and care management to insurers, third party administrators and employers, discusses ways to improve compliance and return to work in workers’ compensation claims. The paper, released this month, …
Preoperative working status was the strongest predictor of postoperative working status three months after lumbar disectomy, according to Khoi Duc Than, MD – winner of the Stewart B. Dunsker, MD, award – who presented his research, How to Predict Return …
A newly released white paper highlights the value of early case management intervention for optimal return to work in workers’ compensation claims. GENEX Services, a national provider of managed care services for employers and insurance carriers, explores the question of …
ReEmployAbility, a national provider of specialty early return-to-work (RTW) services and transitional employment programs, has successfully matched thousands of injured workers with temporary modified duty assignments at its partner local nonprofit organizations. In most cases, a successful outcome means the …
A Jasper County, Miss., man has been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. Attorney General Jim Hood on Monday said 55-year-old David Myrick Cox, of Louin, surrendered to investigators with his office’s Insurance Integrity Unit at the Jasper County …
A northern Idaho couple has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Kootenai County. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports in a story on Saturday that the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Coeur d’Alene contends Kathy Pagano was improperly terminated …
The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has awarded the University of Washington (UW), in collaboration with Harborview Medical Center, a $100,000 grant to help get injured health-care workers back on the job sooner. The Return-to-Work grant, which is part …
Tim Hall of Decatur, Georgia always meets a stranger with a handshake. Whatever reluctance his greeter might feel is quickly assuaged when the Meow Mix lab technician extends his prosthetic right hand and the mechanical fingers close into a firm …
The city of Chicago has inked an agreement with the local painters union to allow injured employees to return to work more quickly, painting fire hydrants and curbs. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement Friday the Transitional Return to …