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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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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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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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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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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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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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A key to the success of Monmouth Medical Centers readmission program is ensuring that patients get the care they need after discharge and understand their treatment plan and medication regimen.
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Medical City Dallas Hospital is taking a proactive approach to Medicares prepayment review process.
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Days before Hurricane Sandy roared through the East Coast, the case management staff at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn was working overtime to discharge patients and free up beds for patients injured in the storm or being evacuated from other hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.
