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Government Dignitaries Give Praise to Ag Community Amid Height of the Pandemic

Agriculture, Occupational Health, Regulations

State and federal dignitaries echoed one another, during AgSafe’s Innovation virtual conference, in vocalizing high praise for America’s agriculture community amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Secretary of California’s Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), Karen Ross stated, “I hope that every American that uses a knife, spoon, and a fork on a daily […]

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March 22, 2021/0 Comments/by Carlos Luna
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The Freedom Nurse

Insurance, Managed Care, Utilization Review

  There are a lot of paths that people take before landing in workers’ compensation as a profession. Most paths are unexpected and mostly underwhelming. Not so for Cynthia Ortiz, Captain in the U.S. Army and Utilization Review Nurse for Risico Total Managed Care. Her journey to workers’ compensation has been nothing short of heroic […]

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June 24, 2020/by Carlos Luna
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ACOEM Publishes COVID-19 EBM Practice Guideline

Insurance, Managed Care, Occupational Health, Utilization Review

  Academics have been fervently working to uncover trustworthy scientific evidence on which to base COVID-19 treatment protocols and business response recommendations. ReedGroup’s MDGuidelines, publishers of the evidence-based occupational medicine practice guidelines independently researched and developed by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), announced this week its publication of the very first […]

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April 17, 2020/by Carlos Luna
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The Modernization of Agriculture’s Guest Worker Program

Insurance, Legislation

  During their 40th Annual Forum in Monterey, California, the Agricultural Personnel Management Association (APMA) took a deep dive into the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 (H.R. 5038). The bill is aimed at modernizing the H-2A temporary agricultural employment of foreign workers, or guest worker program. The conversation on 5038 is meaningful as thirty-three […]

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February 13, 2020/by Carlos Luna
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Let the People Choose

Insurance, Managed Care

  I’m continuously inspired by the journeys that leaders in workers’ compensation take on their path to the industry. Such rich, diverse, and in some cases heartbreaking backgrounds serve as the ideal bedrock for a system that serves people who have been injured on the job left feeling vulnerable, mourning, and in dire need of […]

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October 1, 2019/by Carlos Luna
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California Employers & Work Comp Stakeholders Sound Off

Insurance, Managed Care

  The nation’s largest workers’ compensation community came together recently in Dana Point, California to attend one of the country’s more prominent trade conferences. To kick off the event, a panel of work comp subject matter experts, representing system stakeholders and employers, was assembled to address issues ranging from California’s chief public official’s appetite to […]

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September 13, 2019/by Carlos Luna
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Turning the Clock Back on California’s Workers’ Compensation System

Insurance

  The California Applicants’ Attorney Association (CAAA) is promoting AB 1107 to California Legislators in hopes of materially modifying utilization review exemptions for medical treatment. CAAA has gone on the record stating that they are “dealing with a system that is broken and has failed to deliver the necessary medical care to workers who suffer […]

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April 22, 2019/by Carlos Luna
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Complacency or Complexity: California UROs Crawl to Accreditation

Insurance

  Another deadline has come and gone for the California workers’ compensation community. “A utilization review process that modifies or denies requests for authorization of medical treatment,” according to newly modified Labor Code section 4610(g)(4), “shall be accredited on or before July 1, 2018” by an independent, nonprofit organization that establishes and monitors UR performance […]

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October 4, 2018/by Carlos Luna
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The Narrative of Workers’ Compensation is Changing

Insurance

  The workers’ compensation system looks much differently today than it did a decade ago, partly due to the opioid epidemic. Tragedies of this scale have a way of spurring unexpected outcomes bringing people together from all walks of life and disciplines. Workers’ compensation stakeholders have, and continue to experience, numerous paradigm shifts among insurers, […]

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October 3, 2018/by Carlos Luna
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The California King Case: Imperceptible Implications for UROs

Insurance

  Many minds in the workers’ compensation community have been monopolized by California’s King v. CompPartners, Inc. case. On August 23rd, the State’s Supreme Court issued their ruling on the high-profile dispute:  Workers’ compensation law provides the exclusive remedy for an employee who alleges injuries caused by a utilization reviewer’s denial of medical treatment. This […]

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October 1, 2018/by Carlos Luna
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  • Government Dignitaries Give Praise to Ag Community Amid Height of the PandemicMarch 22, 2021 - 4:44 pm
  • The Freedom NurseJune 24, 2020 - 8:29 am
  • ACOEM Publishes COVID-19 EBM Practice GuidelineApril 17, 2020 - 8:25 am
  • The Modernization of Agriculture’s Guest Worker ProgramFebruary 13, 2020 - 8:22 am
  • Let the People ChooseOctober 1, 2019 - 8:16 am

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