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 [...]
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 [...]
The CompAlliance Telephonic Triage Team recently added COVID-19 Triage Services - both occupational and non-occupational - to their range of workers' compensation triage services. This was a natural extension of the services we offer, and Linda and her team believe they can truly have an impact on cases when [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What is Health Literacy? The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Title V, defines health literacy as the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions. Refer to the CDC Health Literacy [...]
I was reading Bob’s Cluttered Desk and noticed an article encouraging a WorkersCompensation.com Best Blog Contest. This competition is to recognize those of us in the workers’ compensation community who provide “top quality, cutting edge, informative content”. Or as Bob puts it, “or at least those of you who [...]
I attended the IAIABC “CompCon 2019” in San Diego this week. One of the sessions was a round-table between the Heads of Delegations from various states in the US, International Representatives from Germany, Canada, Russia and New South Wales and the IAIABC Associate Members (typically vendors who provide a [...]
Part 2 of my report on the CCMC conference. On Day 2 of the CCMC conference we heard a very interesting plenary session on the future of healthcare by Dr. Robert Pearl, one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders. He stated, “We spend more on healthcare than [...]
CompAlliance will be exhibiting again this year at the NWCDC. One or more of our service lines have been supporting and exhibiting at this conference since 1998! So why should you take the time to stop by, surely you have heard it all before, right? Wrong! I read a [...]
