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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.
Ongoing Maintenance Care in New York: Four Things You Need to Know
The four most important things you need to know about New York’s Ongoing Maintenance Care program to ensure you’re meeting the criteria outlined by MTG.
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.
The Revised CMS-1500 Claim Form: Everything You Need to Know
To date, workers' compensation claims in NY (and a few other states) have utilized an alternate form in order to substantiate injury and treatment. The New York State Workers' Compensation Board has now updated the process of claims submission and is holding the workers' comp payers to the same electronic filing of claims for billing. Enter: the revised CMS-1500.
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: