February 15, 2024 - The objective of every workers' compensation system is to provide an injured worker with reasonable and necessary medical care and wage replacement while they recover from an ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation will pay out $420 million to state employers that were overcharged for insurance premiums under a settlement approved Thursday by a judge.

Notifying Medicare about a workers’ compensation arrangement is crucial. Without notification, a person risks claim denials and having to reimburse Medicare. Workers’ compensation is insurance for ...

Luann Jenkins, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CFPC, recently addressed a Medicare denial that occurs when CMS has been involved in the settlement of a Workers’ Compensation case, according to an AAPC release. PR ...

Federal law requires employers to consider Medicare’s potential interests when settling a workers’ compensation claim with a Medicare beneficiary. The foregoing generally involves the use of a Workers ...

The workers' compensation practitioner has now become a forced bedfellow of CMS, like it or not. If you fail to "issue spot" in relevant settlements, you will have problems. In the summer of 1996, a ...

Terminating an employee who has filed a workers' compensation claim is a delicate and complex process that can have significant legal implications for both the workers' compensation claim and the ...