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Paduda: WC Rates Are Still Too High — and Will Continue to Drop

11/20/2019
13 of claimants to 3. Acute use declined by 40. My key takeaway from  CWCI’s report isn’t the drop in opioid usage it is that claims without opioids are much less costly. Therefore the drop in opioid prescriptions is driving lower

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Paduda: Opioids and Work Comp Premiums

11/14/2019
;Reduced worker benefits are likely a factor as well — and a big problem we’ll address in a later post. If anything investment profits are a drag on profitability NCCI reports 2018 investment gains averaged 9.2. Which brings us to  CWCI’s 

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CWCI : Chronic Opioid Use Fell to 3% of Lost-Time Claims

11/13/2019
cumulative morphine milligram equivalents declined 59 for chronic opioid use claims and 36 for acute opioid use claims. Regression models were used to estimate the impact of opioid use versus nonuse on benefit costs per claim. CWCI projected that savings will reach 16.5 for 2017 claims after 10

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CWCI Reports 94.1% of Treatments Ultimately Approved

10/31/2019
the Research Update that CWCI released on Tuesday also reports for the first time that an estimated 29 of UR denials are appealed to IMR. And CWCI also found that while the proportion of physical medicine services performed in the first 30 days increased from 2017 to 2018 when the UR exemption for

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CWCI Highlights Legislation Relevant to Comp

10/23/2019
Although Assembly Bill 5 was one of the most talked-about bills in the California Legislature this year the California Workers' Compensation Institute has identified 19 other bills that may have workers comp relevance. The bills are listed in a CWCI bulletin issued this week. Topping the list

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CWCI Finds Higher Concentration of WC Patients at Some SoCal Hospitals

10/01/2019
Compensation Institute. At Monrovia Memorial Hospital 28 of inpatient discharges last year were work comp patients an increase from 24 in 2017. Monrovia Memorial was second only to Docs Surgical Hospital in Los Angeles where 41 of inpatient discharges were injured workers CWCI reported. Thats a

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CWCI : Drop in Spinal Fusions Drives Decline in Hospital Stays

09/30/2019
every six worker hospitalizations last year CWCI said. Still the number of spinal fusions is down 45.9 since 2010. Other factors reducing hospitalization rates include increased use of ambulatory surgery centers and technological and procedural advances allowing more services to be provided in

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Nassif: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Through Prevention

09/10/2019
Patient STOP is designed to help deter and prevent opiate addiction of injured employees and assist clients in controlling the costs of prescription drugs. According to statistics released by California Workers’ Compensation Institute CWCI 19 cents of every workers’ compensation

Category: Industry Insights

Med-Legal Providers Say Fee Schedule Raise Too Small; Employers Seek More Moderate Hike

08/30/2019
counsel for CWCI had a differing opinion on whats causing the QME shortage. Langille told WorkCompCentral via email that other factors are at play. The institute conducted a study in 2018 that found the majority of the physicians who dropped out of the qualified medical evaluator roster were not

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Comp Industry About to Get Own 'Future Shock'

08/13/2019
artificial intelligence as an efficient tool to predict claims. Swedlow of CWCI offered an unlikely comparison to AI the brain of a good adjuster circa 1970. In the 1970s they had stuff in their heads whether it was societal factors or demographic factors or other variables. Now weve developed

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