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ACHIEVING SUCCESS TIPS
Medical Provider Brochure

Injury management requires following best practices for maximum effectiveness.  One piece of this puzzle is the Medical Care Coordination and the Medical Provider Brochure.  

 

The Medical Provider Brochure should be given when you make a personal visit to your company's medical providers.  Here are some additional tips:

 

  1. Customize and distribute a brochure to medical providers explaining your company's transitional duty program and the benefits to both your employees and company.
  2. Have treating physicians visit your operation to document physical requirements for performing jobs.
  3. Encourage doctors to suggest transitional duty tasks based on those physical requirements and potential physical limitations.
  4. Monitor medical bills to determine if those medical bills are reduced to the state-mandated fee schedule by your claims management staff.
  5. Determine available claims adjuster services needed to coordinate medical care and reduce medical costs, and use those most useful for your company.
  
WC COST REDUCTION NEWS
The next time you wish your company did not have workers comp insurance, think of railroad companies that are still not part of WC and heavily favor employees. Read it! 
The cost of medical care supplied away from the home can be astronomically more expensive than medical care at the injured employee's home with DME. How?
What can be done to protect employers from questionable comp claims around this time of year? Don't shoot yourself in the foot! Take simple steps to prevent worker absences this fall and winter.

A recent decision grants more power to the New York State Fund to collect than any other Carrier.  You might say they are well connected. Read on from Attorney Ted Ronca.

Cavalcade of Risk, Number 168
The Cavalcade of Risk is a bi-weekly blog carnival that features the top articles regarding risk management, and this week's is hosted by Personal Finance Journey. Hear from our own Rebecca Shafer and many other WC experts.
The Best Tidbits of News From the Work Comp Community
Check out the best tidbits of news from the workers comp community including: Leadership Lessons from Broadspire CEO Danielle Lisenbey, Network Synergy Group's national expansion, the Mobile App for the National Workers Compensation and Disability Conference, and more.
NEWS FROM LowerWC.com
New summaries for "drug testing and workers compensation state laws" for every jurisdiction are NOW posted on our website. Click on the link above to check it out.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

For 20 years, the National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo has been the industry's leading training event. And this year's event is taking it to the next level - making it the best ever! November 7-9th 2012.

For the first time in almost 40 years, multiple efforts are underway to modernize the federal workers' compensation system. The 2012 event kicks off with an Opening Keynote dedicated to the future, explaining how the various reform proposals would affect the federal workers' comp landscape and giving you the tools necessary to handle the changes coming your way. November 7-9th 2012. 
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