Why is Heart Disease Presumed Compensable for Firefighters?

Over the past few years I have read about legislation in many states beginning to cover heart disease, heart attacks and hypertension.  I noted some states were more liberal in their interpretation than others.  For example in Florida, The Presumptive Disability Law for public officers states, Any condition or [...]

2020-06-18T13:25:13-05:00April 5th, 2017|

Why Use Clinical Practice Guidelines?

CompAlliance received a letter from a petitioner's attorney requesting we provide our rationale for utilizing the clinical practice guidelines we currently use as "the National Guideline Clearinghouse has withdrawn approval."  In addition, the "guidelines are neither dictated nor mandated in Illinois." To answer the second part of this attorney's [...]

2020-06-18T13:25:46-05:00February 8th, 2017|

New Year – New Direction?

I have been in the occupational health/case management field for over 30 years.  When I first started, carpal tunnel surgery required hospitalization at least overnight and if you wanted to send information quickly you used one of those new-fangled facsimile machines (but only if you got permission to send it [...]

2020-06-18T13:26:48-05:00January 4th, 2016|

Effective Case Management Referrals

When are full onsite case management referrals effective? Currently we at CompAlliance are seeing a trend towards more Task Assignments for episodic case management intervention in workers’ compensation cases.  In our post yesterday we discussed when we believe a Task Assignment can be effective.  Today we are going to review [...]

2020-06-18T13:27:39-05:00November 14th, 2015|

Are Case Management Task Assignments Effective?

Task assignments can be a cost-effective method of obtaining information or file movement when a workers’ compensation case only requires limited activity or a “snapshot” of information.  Typically these assignments request attendance at one physician appointment to obtain information that has been difficult to obtain, one visit to a [...]

2020-06-18T13:28:02-05:00November 14th, 2015|
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