Recently Diann Cohen of MacroPro and I chatted about a variety of topics pertinent to the workers' compensation industry. It was really exciting as I have not really been interviewed that often, but other than some awkward pauses, I ended up enjoying the process. What I enjoyed the most [...]
Meet Donna Leischner, APN, MS, CCM, COHN-S, she is a workers’ compensation medical case manager for CompAlliance, based out of the Springfield, IL area. Donna received a file for a 52 y/o employee admitted on 5/11/2020 to the hospital into the ICU. The adjuster had been unable to obtain [...]
Meet Tracy Redburn RN, CCM. She is a workers' compensation medical case manager for CompAlliance, based out of the Cape Girardeau, MO area. Tracy worked with a recovering worker (RW), a 44 y/o female, working as a home health care attendant prior to her reported injury. She described injuring [...]
Case Management of COVID-19 Employees We are so focused at present on the immediate short-term needs of our COVID-19 patients, i.e., PPE, Dialysis, Ventilators, etc. How do we case manage these acutely ill recovering workers when they are discharged home? We need a discussion about alternatives for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WHEN THE RECOVERING WORKER IS UNABLE TO RETURN TO THE JOB OF INJURY WITH THE EMPLOYER Even with the finest medical case management, on occasion a recovering worker’s post injury functional capabilities will prevent a return to their job of injury with the employer. When a return to work at [...]
Recently, I met two podiatrists that practice in New York and perform workers’ compensation IMEs along with their usual practice. They were down to visit one of my friends and play some golf in Florida. When they found out I worked in the workers’ compensation industry, they verbalized frustration [...]
Frequent readers of my blog may recall my multiple articles on different aspects of the epidemic as it relates to the workers’ compensation industry, and how CompAlliance has structured their Opioid Protocols as a result. On June 6, 2018, in my article, Opioid Limits on Prescribing – Has the [...]
