Can you return a Recovering Worker back to work in the COVID-19 evolving labor market? Just before the pandemic hit, in the US, we’d get 200,000 to 215,000 new unemployment claims every week, on average. Since mid-March, it’s been 20 to 30 times higher than that — 16.9 million [...]
Vocational Case Management Process Supporting Return to Work A supported interactive mutually agreed upon [by the Vocational Specialist and Recovering Worker (RW)] Vocational Rehabilitation Plan will result in an outcome of placement. If there is noted non-adherence to the vocational plan, you can anticipate receiving clear and objective documentation [...]
CompAlliance has an internal communications newsletter titled, CompClips. In this newsletter we communicate company information, policies, etc., and then we get to the fun stuff like sharing pictures of our kids or grandkids at Halloween. We also try to feature some of our staff when they first join our [...]
Happy Monday and welcome to Part 3 of our Getting to Know the CompAlliance Workers' Compensation Team. Meet Maree Quetschenbach I am a Provider Contracting and Negotiations Specialist for CompAlliance in the Merriam, KS location for our PPO Division. My favorite part of my job is building relationships with [...]
First Up is Tim Nickel, one of our Directors of Regional Sales in the Midwest. Tim primarily focuses on the St. Louis area, but has been known to work with our clients from all over the US! What do you like best about your job? - I love providing [...]
Since everyone is home working and the use of social media is increasing dramatically at this time, We at CompAlliance thought this might be a great opportunity for our clients and those in the workers' compensation community to get to know members of our team. We will try to [...]
I don’t know about you, but I am trying so hard to be brave. I put on my brave face and go out to exercise every day. I put on my brave face and try to focus on the work at hand each day, researching, communicating and developing resources [...]
What Did We Need to Find Out? Immediately as it became clear that this Coronavirus was not something that was going to just disappear, or that we in the luckiest country in the world, were not going to be able to avoid, our CompAlliance President, Jim Weir, met with [...]
Women and Opportunities in the '70s Thought I would take a break today from COVID-19. Because of our (rightful) preoccupation with COVID-19, we didn’t get to spend much time on the meaning of International Women’s Day 2020, on March 8 this year. This year’s theme was “I am Generation [...]
Utilization Management / Utilization Review (UM/UR) is an Effective Tool to Assure the Recovering Worker Receives the Most Appropriate Treatment, with a Goal of Return to Health and Function. CompAlliance believes there is a difference between a proactive Utilization Management approach and a reactive Utilization Review approach when facilitating [...]
In Part 2 of this series we talked about the The 3 “E’s”, 4 “R’s” and 6 Principles of Trauma Informed Care and their effect on the Trauma-informed Care Process. In this installment we will share how these principles could affect the Case Management Process. As stated previously, they [...]
