HR Bartender

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Thus, even the information held in employment records by healthcare institutions is generally not governed by HIPAA. The rule recognizes that employers, their workers’ compensation insurers and claims administrators have a legitimate need to access detailed medical records in order to efficiently administer the workers’ compensation system.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 19, 2022

The workers’ compensation system nationally has been challenged over the last two plus years of the COVID Pandemic. The multi-state administered workers’ compensation program is based on a litigious patchwork of state programs with varying degrees of eligibility, procedures, and benefits.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Implications for the Industry: The NCCI's study highlights the substantial financial impact of mega claims on the workers' compensation system. Policymakers: The study provides data to inform policy decisions regarding workers' compensation laws and regulations.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 27, 2023

Whether you work as a Case Manager for workers’ compensation system, a client services representative for a transport-accident personal-injury insurance, a claims administrator for a non-occupational disability insurance plan, or a return-to-work specialist for a third-party administrator, you will face the disability insurance “trust gap”. [See

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 28, 2022

At the subsequent hearing, the employer presented one witness by deposition, Dr. Jason Brokaw, a board-certified physical medicine, rehabilitation, and pain management doctor, and a certified provider under the Delaware Workers’ Compensation system. Grady was also a certified provider under the Delaware Workers’ Compensation system.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 7, 2020

The adjudicative decision for a workers’ compensation claim will become more complex as the risk differential between work and non-work exposures equalize. A healthcare worker attending patients with an active case of COVID-19 disease, for example, may be in close contact for varying durations of exposure but never develop the disease.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 8, 2023

The limited resources of state-based workers’ compensation systems are too fiscally restrictive to embrace the long-term treatment and disability benefits that will emerge from successive infectious disease outbreaks. Federal efforts are expanding to provide necessary research and treatment protocol resources.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 3, 2023

The Judge concluded, therefore, that the absence of such language in the COVID-19 Job Protection Act or any other legislation left the determination of compensability of COVID-19 as an issue to be determined and assessed on a case-by-case basis through the existing West Virginia workers’ compensation system. of WV, Inc.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JUNE 2, 2024

Those seeking help through the healthcare system report feeling patronized, punished , or humiliated (Christina Pellegrini, Mental illness stigma in health care settings a barrier to care, CMAJ January 07, 2014 186 (1) E17). Workers’ compensation systems may also have specific exclusions and presumptions.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 5, 2022

Many workers’ compensation systems impose limits on benefits for older workers. Every corporate planner anticipated a pandemic would arise at some point. Legislation developed twenty or thirty years ago may have reflected a social context that anticipated early retirement; “freedom 55” may have been a mantra decades ago.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 22, 2019

AWCBC provides a publicly available data reporting tool that allows for the extraction of data necessary to create similar ratios from the provincial workers’ compensation system. paid to workers or to healthcare and rehabilitation providers for their treatment and care. and employer costs ranged from $0.48 to 0.88.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 23, 2020

Rapid, accurate and consistent decisions will depend on the degree of agility workers’ compensation systems can achieve on these potentially complex cases and constrained operating environments. A special concern: Mental Injuries Workers’ compensation systems routinely accept psychological impacts as a result of injury.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 4, 2024

The apparent rise in mental disability claims is a significant issue for disability insurers and workers’ compensation systems. The observed rise in workers’ compensation claims for mental injury must be interpreted in context. In the BC context, disability insurance extends to about 1.3

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 27, 2023

But since the original treatment was for a work-related injury, any alleged malpractice exacerbating the original injury would also have been compensable as an aggravation. As such, the employee’s exclusive remedy should be within the compensation system.] Kirson , 362 Md. 140, 763 A.2d 2d 185 (2000).

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

Grace Healthcare , 320 So.3d Thus, we begin with the decisions that have already addressed the preemptive effect of the CSA on orders for reimbursement of medical cannabis made under state workers' compensation laws [Opinion, p. The decision of the Department's reviewing board was accordingly affirmed. In Jones v. 3d 191 (Fla.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 13, 2021

Total rewards programs are meant to simplify employee benefits, compensation , and training. They provide the advantage of a centrally administered system that companies can use to monitor all aspects of employee involvement. With the health and well-being of employees in mind, companies are prioritizing their total rewards packages.

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Workers' Compensation

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This is the first in a series of posts concerning the potential impact of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on the nation's patchwork of workers' compensation systems. It may cause serious repercussions in the workers' compensation system, particularly concerning Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements ( MSAs ).

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Background Linda Henretty, a Kansas resident working as a scrub tech in Wichita, accepted a job offer as a Senior OR Tech from a Montana healthcare facility while in Kansas. LEXIS 31 (Kan. 18, 2024)]. After accepting the offer, she received a $5,000 relocation allowance, quit her job in Kansas, sold her house, and moved to Montana.

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