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Employees who are injured or ill return to work full time more quickly and experience a shorter period of disability when the health care components and disability components of an insurance company work together, a CIGNA study of 60,000 short-term disability claims has shown.
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Quality improvement organizations (QIOs) have gone a long way toward erasing the previously adversarial and punitive roles of their predecessors, the peer review organizations, according to a new study in the bimonthly journal Health Services Research.
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Suspecting that a colleague might be impaired by drugs or alcohol is difficult; knowing what to do with those suspicions is even harder.
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At CIGNA, disability nurse case managers often partner with nurse case managers from the health care side of the company to facilitate getting an injured worker back on the job.
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Gaps in the system are costing you money: the injury that isnt reported right away; the employee who doesnt keep a doctors appointment; and the supervisor who doesnt make an effort to find a position for an employee with temporary restrictions.
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Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey is taking physician pay for performance to a new level, embarking on a plan to pay a higher standard fee to specialists who outperform their peers.
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Your influenza vaccination campaign is coming into the public spotlight, and that means more pressure than ever on the logistics of administering and tracking those vaccinations.
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After years of being frustrated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program and other audit programs, the hospital industry is taking action. Heres the latest:
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Healthcare reform initiatives such as value-based purchasing and readmission reduction, and a growing emphasis on quality have heightened awareness of case management, says Toni Cesta, RN, PhD, FAAN, senior vice president, operational efficiency and capacity management at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, and partner and consultant in Dallas-based Case Management Concepts.