
Low back injury claims in which treatment adhered to American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine guidelines had lower costs than claims in which the
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An injured worker in New York could be prescribed an opioid-based painkiller for up to seven days without prior authorization, but if he overdoses, an
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An impending update to a medical diagnosis coding system is likely to add complexity to workers’ comp billing, but it could also bring what some
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A last-minute change to Ohio's worker's compensation agency budget bill has sparked condemnation from around the country because it would require injured workers to declare
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After years of failed attempts by the General Assembly to strengthen Missouri's cancer presumption law, firefighters may have found a new avenue to obtain workers'
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Former California Department of Industrial Relations director Christine Baker remains on the state Fraud Assessment Commission despite being embroiled in a nepotism scandal, missing the
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Rating agency AM Best has proposed a new scoring system for assessing carriers’ innovation efforts, an idea that is sparking mixed reactions from the insurance
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A half-century after a nuclear-bomb-laden B-52 crashed in Greenland, three members of a Danish cleanup crew contend they're due U.S. workers' compensation benefits for the
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Two years after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced a process for revisiting Medicare set-aside amounts that the agency has already approved, the
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If Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards agrees, Louisiana will be the second state this year to enact a law creating a rebuttable presumption that mental
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