In Pennsylvania, if an insurer contends that a medical service, drug or device is unnecessary, it must resolve the dispute...
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In the past decade or so, the world has undergone tremendous technological transformation. For example, in 2008, only 139 million...
As medical costs continue to rise, workers’ compensation payors are looking for methods to identify expenses that can be controlled...
Creating a physician peer review panel is like solving a puzzle – it comes together only after reviewing the landscape,...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday sided with employers in a fight over the right of workers to sue over...
Medical expenses, now averaging well over 60 percent of average claims costs, according to a 2014 Lockton whitepaper, represent a...
New data on the Independent Medical Review (IMR) process used to resolve California workers’ comp medical disputes show that IMR...
While critics say utilization review (UR) in workers’ compensation claims is nothing more than a cost savings mechanism, an industry...
Inappropriate early use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to diagnose work-related lower back pain correlates with higher medical costs, unnecessary...