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Streamlining Injury Reporting for Better Workers' Compensation Outcomes
When you manage workers’ compensation for a company, you have two priorities: get your employee the care they need and get them back to work ASAP. Here, we outline four ways to create a faster claims reporting process for employees, setting you up for a faster, more streamlined case.
Navigating New York State Medical Treatment Guidelines and PARs: 2024
Established in 2010 by the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board as a single standard of medical care for the treatment of injured workers, the New York State Medical Treatment Guidelines continue to evolve with the rapidly shifting industry.
4 Ways Companies Are Proactively Addressing Workplace Safety
Here are a few examples of companies that have been proactive about addressing and reducing workplace injuries and fatalities—and how they’re going about it.
The Horseplay Rule Demystified
What happens when two employees are horsing around on the job and one gets hurt? Here’s a breakdown of the Horseplay Rule.
Injured in NY, Treated in Another State: How to Manage Injured Workers Crossing State Lines
Here’s what you need to know about navigating the medical management process for employees injured in NY and living elsewhere.
How to Handle an Opioid Overdose in the Workplace
With the likelihood of a workplace opioid overdose at an all-time high, what can you do to ensure that employees at all levels of your company are equipped to handle an incident?
Three Ways Your Corporate Culture is Increasing Your Out of Work Employees
If your organization has begun prioritizing safety initiatives but you’re still not seeing results, here are three ways your corporate culture might be contributing to your out-of-work employees.
Four Things To Look For In Your Next Medical Case Managers
The Workers’ Compensation Board has a fairly comprehensive rundown on its Ongoing Maintenance Care program here. If you have any questions specific to your case or know you need some OMC experts to help navigate the process, shoot us an email. We’d be happy to help.
What is the Role of a Medical Case Manager?
Medical case managers play a critical role in getting injured workers healthy and back to work, while acting as a trusted liaison between HR teams, insurance companies, doctors and more. Here, we take a closer look at how medical case managers support multiple stakeholders in the aftermath of a workplace injury.
10 Revealing Statistics About the Rise in Telemedicine
Here are 10 revealing statistics about the current state of the telemedicine industry post-pandemic and how patients and providers are successfully using telemedicine.
What to Do When a Catastrophic Injury Takes Place at Work
While catastrophic injuries (thankfully) account for a small portion of workers’ compensation claims, they represent a large portion of total workers’ compensation losses. Here’s what to do when a catastrophic injury takes place at work.
Language of Workers’ Compensation Part 3: How to Better Support Your Non-English Speaking Injured Employees
In Part Three of our Language of Workers’ Compensation series, we outline the leading challenges non-English speaking employees face when they get hurt on the job and how, as an employer, it’s critical that you put proactive practices in place to better support their recovery.
Language of Workers’ Compensation Part Two: 17 New York Acronyms Everyone Should Know
We’re tackling the most important acronyms to help employers, carriers and injured workers more easily navigate the workers’ comp industry here in New York.
Language of Workers’ Compensation Part One: Understanding Key Stakeholders
Each stakeholder comes from a different perspective, has different motivations and uses different language to talk about the injured worker and their injury. Here’s a brief rundown on the main players in an injured worker case.
Introducing Viscardi
For the past several years, we started to suspect that we’d outgrown our branding. Ultimately, we wanted our insides (our values, expertise and unique approach to this work) to meet our outsides (our name, logo, website and overall brand aesthetic). In the summer of ‘18, we embarked on our rebrand process and thought it would be fun to share a bit about the experience and what we learned: