The Division of Workers’ Compensation on Tuesday proposed a Medical-Legal Fee Schedule that would pay flat fees for initial, follow-up and supplemental evaluations to a
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Just as many miner advocates and claimants' attorneys predicted when the Kentucky Legislature passed House Bill 2 last year, very few doctors who meet the
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Initial opioid prescriptions of as short as five to nine days are associated with an increased chance of an injured worker who was previously opioid-free
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In many workers' comp claims involving a temporary staffing agency, the end-client company is quick to argue the temp firm was the employer and must
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Copy shops are pleased with a California Division of Workers’ Compensation proposal to update the fee schedule for professional photocopy services that would increase the
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After 18 years of administrative decisions, court rulings and appeals-court reversals and remands, a dispute over hospital reimbursements for unusually extensive treatments of injured workers
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As state lawmakers continue to expand firefighter cancer presumption laws across the nation, a University of California researcher has written an article questioning the scientific
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North Dakota has become one of the first states to clamp dosage limits on pregabalin, reflecting new concerns that the non-opioid medication may not be
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In a sign that the pendulum may be starting to swing, legislation to loosen restrictions on opioid prescribing is cropping up in a few states.
Proposals to
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CorVel Corp. is working to pick up the pieces after a security breach — which some have called a ransomware attack by North Korean operatives
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