While the Kansas Legislature remains a deep shade of red, the new governor is a Democrat who has signaled her support for a kinder, gentler
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Rules proposed by the Division of Workers’ Compensation could force some utilization review firms that already received accreditation from URAC to go through the credentialing
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Despite efforts to provide “Chevy” rather than “Cadillac” models of prosthetic limbs to injured workers, the Indiana Workers' Compensation Board saw the cost of prosthetics
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Like a sick patient who developed complications, workers’ compensation medical costs in Texas increased sharply after 2000 and continue to rise in some categories. But
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An experimental device intended to measure a patient’s pain by checking the pupil response to different stimuli could have many applications in workers’ comp but would
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A federal judge in Southern California on Friday found that Michael D. Drobot breached his plea agreement, a ruling that could expose the former Pacific
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The New York legislative session for 2019 is only a few days old, but no less than 15 bills have been introduced that would affect
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Although value-based care may eventually gain a greater foothold in workers’ comp, it faces a number of hurdles — including providers’ attachment to the fee-for-service model,
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Fake certificates of workers’ compensation insurance have become an all-too-common problem in the construction industry, contractors and regulators agree. Some subcontractors don’t think twice about
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Montana State Fund officials are monitoring, with some trepidation, a draft bill that would liquidate the carrier and transfer its half-billion dollar surplus to the
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