NWCDC 2018

MM1 | Getting Difficult, Frustrating and Expensive Claims Unstuck (Room Islander F-H)

Moving difficult and expensive claims toward a positive resolution may require modifying traditional medical approaches that all too frequently turn simple injuries into catastrophic cases. Three medical experts will share strategies that start with identifying obstacles delaying healing and recovery, and then offer biopsychosocial interventions for overcoming those obstacles and getting stuck claims moving in the right direction. You’ll learn solutions, including improved communications with workers and physicians, gleaned from successes resolving real-world claims, and hear examples and results from workers’ comp entities applying the strategies.