Developing Win-Win Relationships with Third-Party Administrators Q&A
Q: Do most TPAs have an interest in the same core metrics or is there considerable variance from TPA to TPA?
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The Medical Director/Program Director Interface Q&A
Q : What changes are needed when an occupational health program becomes blended with urgent care? Does the medical director’s role change?
A: “We have a dedicated occupational medicine clinic that our medical director is responsible for, but we have a number of workplace clinics that our own employees utilize. So there’s some blending there and our medical director is responsible for all of them.”
3 Classes of Traumatic Brain Injury Determine Driver Certification
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can have lasting effects on a driver’s memory, reasoning, sensation, communication and understanding, and cause emotional issues including depression, anxiety and personality changes.
Medical Marijuana – OK for Commercial Drivers?
Much of the recent press about marijuana has been regarding recreational use now legal in several states.
When the Boss Wants to Play Doctor
We wear two hats in the occupational medicine environment.
To Clot or Not – part 2
One of my biggest pet peeves is transferring patients to the ER because of the inability to obtain confirmatory diagnostic testing for potentially serious conditions. We all know the ER cost of admission – 4-5 X what it costs to treat the same condition in the urgent care setting.
Progress Report: Measuring the Value of Occupational Health and Safety Interventions
The ability to quantify the effectiveness of workplace health and safety interventions––once an elusive goal––is now within the grasp of employers and their medical provider partners.
A New Concentra Era Takes Shape
In the last issue of VISIONS, we reported that Humana had just agreed to sell Concentra to a joint venture comprised of Select Medical and Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe. The selling price was $1.055 billion in cash and the deal closed in June.
Positioning Your Program to Senior Management Q&A
Q: What are the core reporting metrics for senior management? We begin by telling our clients, ‘What is important to you may not be applicable to them.’
Building an Outstanding Program Website Q&A
Websites are such a common business tool that it’s going to reflect poorly on your program if you don’t have one.