When a work injury aggravates, reactivates or accelerates your arthritis or degenerative disc disease, you have a right to file for workers' compensation benefits. There is considerable misund ...

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Critics decry the current WC Medical Fee Schedule as not recognizing enough real present medical cost savings but, if they look at historical rates of medical cost inflation, they would see the true value of the present WC Medical Fee Schedule in cappi ...

Until recently, most people had never heard of staphylococcus aureus. Now methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) seems to be a topic of discussion for most households, workplaces and water coolers. Although there was fear among th ...

Employers across the United States have been crying to their state legislatures about the high cost of medical fees for injured workers. Many of the state legislatures have implemented medical fee schedules based upon Medicare.

Physicians in several states are not taking any new workers' comp cases. Their complaints are many: low pay being the #1 reason, as well as high overhead and costs of treating injured workers, delays in dealing with Utilization Review companies, time a ...

For many years now, medical providers who enter into contracts with preferred provider organizations (PPOs) have had their bills for medical services reduced in accordance with the terms of the contract. The PPO creates a network of providers who have ...

In legislation backed by the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA), the Tennessee legislature has enacted new laws to regulate silent PPO's effective January 1, 2008.  The silent PPO problem is more prevalent in workers' compensation than in any oth ...