Showing posts with label Health insurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health insurance. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Injured Workers Continue to Decline While Employer Costs Rise

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Study Finds Benefits as a Share of Payroll Approach Lowest in Three Decades Workers’ compensation benefits as a share of payroll for in...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Why More, Not Fewer, People Might Start Getting Health Insurance Through Work

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Today's post was shared by WCBlog and comes from www.nytimes.com In an earnings call last week, Walmart announced that its worke...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

IRS prepping for Obamacare employer mandate in 2015

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What will happen with the employer mandate ? Will the consequences be that the workers' compensation carriers expand coverage to em...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Retiree Health Plans Considered

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Today's post was shared by CRR Boston College and comes from squaredawayblog.bc.edu Dave Gardner says: The health exchanges are al...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Prices Soaring for Specialty Drugs, Researchers Find

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Workers' Compensation insurance covers the FULL cost of prescription drugs.Today's post was shared by The New York Times and comes...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Freeing Workers From the Insurance Trap

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Removing major medical coverage from a condition of employment will ultimately improve working condition. Today's post was shared by S...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Wah, Wah, Wah

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Occupational disease claims present difficulty in the delivery of medical care. Today's post was shared by WorkCompCentral and comes...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

More Cost Shifting

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A recent study reports that zero-cost workers' compensation claims merely creates cost shifting to other programs. Objective: Previ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

For Workers Leaving Their Jobs, Health Exchanges Offer Insurance Choices Beyond COBRA

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The Affordable Care Act will impact all areas of the delivery of medicine in the workplace.Today's post was shared by Kaiser Health...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Tacking Health Care Costs Onto California Farm Produce

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Today's post was shared by WCBlog and comes from www.nytimes.com Farm labor contractors across California, the nation’s biggest ...
Monday, August 19, 2013

It's Complicated: Obamacare's Choices for People with Disabilities

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Thought of as safety-net for those injured workers who are caught in disputed litigation over workers' compensation benefits, Obamacare ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Health Benefits, US Supreme Court and Workers Compensation

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U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) On Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments concerning the validity ...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Industry Coalition Wants to Cut CMS Conditional Payments

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A group of about 50 employers, insurance carriers and vendors have formed a coalition to endorse legislation  ( H.R.1063 ) introduced this w...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

California Report Makes Recommendations To Curtail Lien Claimants

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A California workers' compensation report has made sweeping recommendations to reduce and manage the filling of liens in pending cases. ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

New Jersey Issues Workers Compensation Guidance on Evaluating Disputed Medical Provider Claims

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A NJ Workers' Compensation Task Force repor t has been published that provides guidance to the parties in evaluating disputed medical p...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Patent Awarded for Compensatory Patient Invoicing

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The US Patent Office has issued a patent to Stephen Ambrose for a system and method for enabling health care providers to effect compensat...