Climate significantly impacts workplace safety and health. As global warming increases, and changing weather patterns become more pronounced, workers’ compensation insurance systems will be stressed to limits never before imagined.
Since the inception of US workers’ compensation legislation almost a century ago, climate extremes have been causally related to compensable events in both a traumatic and occupational exposure setting. Whether it be periods of extreme temperatures or significant storm, i.e.. Hurricane Sandy, weather patterns are reaching new record breaking levels and causing increased levels of occupation injuries and illnesses already.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
CMS - ICD10 Codes in Effect for Reporting Requirements Oct 1, 2015
Medicare Secondary Payer Act - CMS Reporting Requirements ICD10 Codes to be required as of October 1, 2015.
Reporting Reminder: Effective October 1, 2015, Responsible Reporting Entities and their agents will be required to report ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes on claim reports with a CMS Date of Incident (DOI) on or after October 1, 2015. This timeline and reporting requirements have not changed. For more information on ICD diagnosis code reporting, please refer to the MMSEA Section 111 NGHP User Guide Technical Information Chapter IV (Section 6.2.5 – ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes). The NGHP User Guide can be downloaded from the NGHP User Guide page available at the following link: http://go.cms.gov/MIRNGHPUserGuide.
Reporting Reminder: Effective October 1, 2015, Responsible Reporting Entities and their agents will be required to report ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes on claim reports with a CMS Date of Incident (DOI) on or after October 1, 2015. This timeline and reporting requirements have not changed. For more information on ICD diagnosis code reporting, please refer to the MMSEA Section 111 NGHP User Guide Technical Information Chapter IV (Section 6.2.5 – ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes). The NGHP User Guide can be downloaded from the NGHP User Guide page available at the following link: http://go.cms.gov/MIRNGHPUserGuide.
The Jury is Still Out on Wind Turbine Noise
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Occupational hearing loss claims have been have been associated with exposure to sources of loud noise for decades. One would think that new technology would limit noise exposure but maybe not so for energy production. A new study from Canada reflects that more research is need to determine whether wind turbine can produce adverse medical conditions.Monday, July 13, 2015
Telemedicine puts a doctor virtually at your bedside
As workers' compensation medical costs expand, the next frontier at lowering costs maybe telemedicine. Will state regulations govern or whether will it be a nationally related system? Telemedicine may ultimately define the future of work-related medical care.
Watch the PBS Newshour segment on this topic.
Telemedicine puts a doctor virtually at your bedside
Watch the PBS Newshour segment on this topic.
Telemedicine puts a doctor virtually at your bedside
CMS Moved the Coordination of Benefits Secure Website (COBSW)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has formally moved:
The URL for accessing the Section 111 Coordination of Benefits Secure Website (COBSW) has been changed to: https://www.cob.cms.hhs.gov/Section111//.
July 13, 2015 - Updated MMSEA Section 111 NGHP User Guide Version 4.7 - Chapters I-V Now Available
The URL for accessing the Section 111 Coordination of Benefits Secure Website (COBSW) has been changed to: https://www.cob.cms.hhs.gov/Section111//.
July 13, 2015 - Updated MMSEA Section 111 NGHP User Guide Version 4.7 - Chapters I-V Now Available
The updated MMSEA Section 111 NGHP User Guide dated July 13, 2015 has been posted to the NGHP User Guide page. Refer to Chapter 1-1 of each chapter for a summary of Version 4.7 updates.
White House Conference on Aging 2015
Read more about "aging" and "workers' compensation":
Jul 07, 2012
Safety in the workplace is now a growing concern as US aging workforce expands. It has been frequently reported that the expansion of this dimension of the labor sector has generated an increase in serious accidents and .
Dec 05, 2009
Safety in the workplace is now a growing concern as US aging workforce expands. It has been frequently reported that the expansion of this dimension of the labor sector has generated an increase in serious accidents and ...
Aug 03, 2012
"The aging of the U.S. population, the increasing share of females in the workforce, and, in recent years, the high unemployment rate are the primary factors explaining the rising costs of Social Security Disability Insurance.".
Nov 25, 2013
Men who are unemployed for more than two years show signs of faster ageing in their DNA, a new study has found. Researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Oulu, Finland studied DNA samples from ...
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Perspectives in Biological Monitoring of Inhaled Nanosized Particles
In this review, the authors synthesize published data of experimental studies on the distribution of inhaled nanoparticles and the first case reports to discuss the potential usefulness of their biological monitoring for clinical purposes.
Toxicokinetic studies suggest that nanoparticles may be absorbed predominantly by respiratory and oral routes with possible systemic translocation, leading to accumulation in the peripheral organs or excretion in feces or urine.
Some methods used in these studies may be applied successfully in retrospective evaluation of exposure or in follow-up of occupational exposure in the workplace. Biological monitoring of nanoparticles should be based on imaging methods that are essential to confirm their presence and to characterize them in tissue associated with analytical quantitative methods.
The first case reports reviewed emphasize the urgent need for the development of standardized procedures for the preparation and analysis of biological samples with a view to characterizing and quantifying nanoparticles.
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