A federal contractor responsible for collecting money owed to Medicare from workers’ comp and other payers may finally be cleaning up a mess created when
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Legislation passed in 2013 that switched North Carolina to a Medicare-based reimbursement plan continues to have its intended effect: The state’s medical costs for 2016
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Health care workers experience a high rate of work-related injuries, and claims involving patient handling have the highest average total cost, at $14,100 per claim,
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A Pennsylvania employer group is urging regulators to order a refund on workers’ compensation premiums that were raised this year because of an insurance carrier’s
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Steven Howser was convicted of conspiring to pay $8,000 in kickbacks to a Southern California doctor who ordered durable medical equipment from his company. As a result,
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Intrathecal pumps, drug-delivery systems that have been controversial in workers’ compensation, are the subject of a warning issued Thursday by the U.S. Food and Drug
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Backroom negotiations and lobbyist involvement are rarely associated with changes that benefit the many over the few. But talks this week between business groups and
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Expectations about the impact Jerry Brown would have on California’s workers’ compensation system at the start of his second stint as governor haven’t exactly matched
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Stakeholders of all stripes were stunned Wednesday to hear that Pennsylvania's state rating bureau early this year had based a rate increase on bad data,
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Eight states have been selected by the U.S. Department of Labor to participate in a five-year, $100 million pilot project that seeks to develop early intervention
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