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Medicare's Magic Number: $750 for Workers' Compensation 2025

Workers' Compensation

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will maintain the current threshold of $750 for workers' compensation settlements in 2025. This threshold determines when settlements must be reported to Medicare and conditional payments must be repaid. Let's dive into what this means and how CMS made this decision. Understanding the Threshold The threshold applies to workers' compensation settlements where the carrier does not have ongoing responsibility for medical exp

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The Staggering Cost Of Disengaged Employees: How Disengagement Impacts Your Bottom Line

Vantage Circle

Recently, I was reading Amazon’s sustainability report , which highlighted that they were investing nearly $10 billion into employee benefits in 2023. This massive investment underscores how crucial employee engagement is to a company’s success. But then I came across a Fortune article revealing that Amazon’s new 5-day in-office mandate has led 73% of surveyed staffers to consider quitting.

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Consider the Source

Florida Workers' Comp

In an early 2023 hubbub regarding artificial intelligence, the world gained a glance at the first of the generative AI, large language model (LLM) programs. The world has frankly not been the same since. There is a fair amount of consternation and discussion regarding where AI gleans it information. A great many copyrighted works have been digested by these programs, processed, reprocessed, and stored.

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