WCRI and the Future of Healthcare

In a keynote presentation at the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) Annual Issues and Research Conference, David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University, discussed the current state of healthcare in the United States and his predictions for the future. Cutler highlighted the uncertainty in the healthcare environment, citing factors such as bankruptcies, budgetary issues, and workforce crises. He presented two frameworks for understanding the healthcare landscape:…

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Regarding Artificial Intelligence, Real Intelligence is the Problem

The ostensible implosion and suspension this past week of the image generating feature of Google’s newly released Artificial Intelligence offering, Gemini, has furthered suspicions and fears about the potential foibles and threats of the technology. It has been widely reported that Gemini’s’ bias would not allow it to generate images of white people and instead would only create images of “persons of color.” This included versions of the Pope and our nation’s…

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Voice of the Provider – Assistive Technology

Voice of the Provider is a collaboration between Brooks Rehabilitation and WorkCompCollege.com and the name defines its purpose. Many stakeholders in work comp do not understand or appreciate all of the various clinical providers that help an injured employee return to and stay at work. Whether recovery from the injury / illness is easy or hard, there are clinicians along the way that utilize their education, expertise and experience to help.…

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Sanderson Firm and WorkCompCollege Partner to Launch Medicare Secondary Payer Accreditation (MSPA), a Revolutionary On-Demand MSP Training Course and Designation

Bradenton, FL, February 15, 2024: Sanderson Compliance LLC, a subsidiary of Sanderson Firm PLLC, a leading Medicare Secondary Payer (“MSP”) compliance firm, and WorkCompCollege.com, a virtual training platform for the workers’ compensation ecosystem, are excited to announce the official launch of an MSP educational accreditation course for claims professionals, Medicare Secondary Payer Accreditation (“MSPA”). MSP is an often challenging and intimidating area of compliance for both new and seasoned claims…

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Headed to the (Almost Sold Out) 2024 WCRI Issues & Research Conference

[playht_player width="100%" height="90px" voice="en-US-GuyNeural"] As March approaches, the anticipation for the 40th Annual WCRI Issues & Research Conference is building among professionals in the workers' compensation field. Scheduled for March 5-6, 2024, in Boston, MA, this event promises once again to be a cornerstone for those seeking to understand and navigate the complexities within our workers' compensation systems. And I am once again looking forward to attending and writing about this…

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Leave It to The Post Office to Lose Email

I understand the United States Postal Service has some major challenges. They run 31,330 post office locations in the US, some of them with automatic postage dispensers in actual working order. In 2022, they delivered 127.3 billion pieces of mail. They suspiciously do not report how many pieces are submitted to them, but they do manage to deliver 127.3 billion to their appropriate destination. Well, a destination, anyway. And they…

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Voice of the Provider – Case Managers

Voice of the Provider is a collaboration between Brooks Rehabilitation and WorkCompCollege.com and the name defines its purpose. Many stakeholders in work comp do not understand or appreciate all of the various clinical providers that help an injured employee return to and stay at work. Whether recovery from the injury / illness is easy or hard, there are clinicians along the way that utilize their education, expertise and experience to help.…

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Star Trek, Workers’ Comp, Technology Adoption, AI, and the Inertial Damper System

Far be it for me to offer two blog posts in a row that reference the entertainment franchise, Star Trek. I am not a “Trekkie nerd” by any stretch of the imagination, although I do enjoy many of the 973 or so series the concept has spawned. Through many episodes there are numerous references and suggestions of the various technologies that make warp travel possible in the 22nd century and…

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Achieving a Successful Partnership Among the Stakeholders: Part 2

Free: A Live Course - Achieving a Successful Partnership Among the Stakeholders: Part 2 Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Space is Limited - Enroll Today! The workers’ compensation ecosystem has many stakeholders. Their incentives often, but don’t always, align. This can complicate how they service the two most important stakeholders … the employer and injured employee. When these various stakeholders create silos with different priorities, it can…

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Star Trek and the Wrath of Can’t

To be honest, this post doesn’t have much to do with Star Trek. Ok, it has nothing to do with Star Trek, except for a clever play on words designed to suck you in and take you along for a joy ride of erudition.  Or not. Whatever, you’ve come this far. Might as well slug your way through the rest of this morass. The movie “Star Trek II: The Wrath…

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