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Archives:
- OMCA Earns URAC Reaccreditation in Workers’ Compensation Utilization Management
- Supreme Court Opinion Impacts UR
- “I Know Nothing!” ~Sergeant Schultz
- Laws Loom Large
- Psych Claims and Lord Voldemort
- It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
- “Great, kid! Don’t get cocky!”
- The New Normal is Not Just a Cliché
- “Gotcha Covered,” Said the Doctor
- I’m Not Psychic, But…
- Making Lemonade From Lemons
- Doing Better by Giving Back
- Plentiful Pandemic Payments
- PAID In Full
- Presume the Unexpected
- Potential Risk Aggregators
- Sorry, Not Sorry
- The Candyman Can’t Anymore
- Surefire Safety Solutions
- Presumption, Rebuttal and Essential
- Association is Not Causation, But…
- Keeping Up from Coast to Coast
- Pain Self-Efficacy
- OMCA Earns URAC Reaccreditation in Workers’ Compensation Utilization Management
- The Long, Hot Summer
- New Stresses in Atlanta
- It Really Is Free
- Class, Open Your Computers to NCCI.com
- Presumptive Ping Pong
- A Storm is Coming
- We Will Get Through This Together
- Don’t Forget to Write!
- Coping With COVID-19
- UR Through PPL
- Swifter, Smarter, Stronger
- Nightmares, Flashbacks and Fright
- Turning the Volume Down
- Don’t Be That Guy
- NOLA On My Mind
- Veterans Deserve More Than Opioids
- My Fab Five
- Presumption, But Not Surrender
- Dr. William Nemeth RIP
- Hurricane Opioid Stalls in Kentucky
- It’s Only Words
- Porsche For Sale Seller Motivated
- Diagnostic Smackdown!
- “Well, isn’t that SPECIAL?”
- Dispensing Dispensations
- #ByeFelicia!
- “Move Your Body,” Says Beyoncé
- High Error Rate Found in WC Diagnoses
- Physicians as Perpetual Students
- “I’ll Take ‘Unscrupulous’ for $30,000, Alex.”
- Porter and Jick and Unintended Consequences
- Modality Mumbo Jumbo
- Hippocrates Was a Compounder! (…But He Did No Harm)
- Derby, Preakness & Belmont?
- O Canada, We Stand on Guard for Thee
- 10,000 to 1 Are Poor Odds
- You Say Potato…I Say Potahto!
- It All Depends On Where You Start
- John Cougar, John Deere & John 3:16
- This Door Swings Both Ways
- Walk It Off!
- Because It Works!
- Say What You Need to Say
- Light at the End of the Carpal Tunnel
- The End of the Beginning
- Which Side Are You On?
- A Less Friendly Casper
- What’s In a Name??
- Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle
- Gross Negligence, Public Nuisance and Misconduct
- Two Million Chances to Say No
- Spuds, Skidoodies and Big Pharma
- Green Green Grass of Home
- “I May Be Synthetic, But I’m Not Stupid.”
- One Plus One Equals Three
- Tale of the Dog That Bit You
- Not All About That Bass
- Never Be Your Beast of Burden
- Known Knowns and Unknown Unknowns
- Fee Not Afraid
- Columbus Condones Cannabis
- There’s A New Sheriff In Town
- Wisely and Slow
- Keep Your ION the Ball
- The Magic of Compounding
- Moxie, Money and Muscle
- An Okie from Muskogee
- Terminate With Extreme Prejudice
- Never, Never, Never Give Up
- “Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Don’t Pay!”
- JFK is Relevant Today
- Win, Place and No Show
- You’re Late! But There’s Work ‘Aplenty!
- Misconceptions, Mistakes and Malevolence 4.0
- Misconceptions, Mistakes and Malevolence 3.0
- Misconceptions, Mistakes and Malevolence 2.0
- Misconceptions, Mistakes and Malevolence
- The Dukes of Hazard, Redux
- “When You Come to a Fork in the Road…”
- If You Don’t Know Jewelry…Know Your Jeweler!
- Catching the Midnight Rider
- “Danger, Will Robinson!”
- How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall?
- Rules? In a Knife Fight?
- Opioid Fixation
- Presumption Peculiarities
- Healthcare Rationing 2016
- Never, ever, give up.
- Paralysis by Analysis
- We be Jammin’
- I Resolve To…
- You Can Tell He’s Lying…When His Lips Are Moving
- Don’t Mess With Texas
- Thanks Mr. Obvious!…or Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
- Dr. Murder Convicted…It’s A Good Start
- Knee Deep in Weed
- Jonas Salk Was No Hedge Fund Manager
- Nurse, Hand Me My Glock
- Friction Costs
- The 1% Dilemma
- Panning for Gold in West Virginia
- My back is fine, but the doctor needs the work!
- Save the Date! Dec 10th & 11th, 2015
- “Pill Mill Bill” Makes the Dean’s List
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- That’s a GOOD Thing….No, Wait, That’s a BAD Thing
- First Law of Holes
- “Trust, but Verify.”
- I Gawr-On-Tee
- Penile Nerve Blocks?
- Coffee and Nurses
- Clinic or Patient Factory?
- Nip It in the Bud
- Upcoming Conferences
- Hack My Scripts
- Upgrade to Your Bedroom
- Buts, Buts and More Buts
- Exorcise Your Network
- Well, Who Didn’t See That Coming?
- Stupid Dope Tricks
- “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
- Surgeon Punches Patient. REALLY?!?
- Is the Jig Really Up?
- Perpetual Motion Lives
- “Send It In, Jerome!”
- Don’t Cry Uncle
- KASPER The Friendly Ghost
- Old Dogs…New Tricks
- You Might Be a Redneck If…
- Magic 8 Ball Questions
- What’s the Story With Physician-Dispensed Drugs?
- Pharmacy Control – GUARANTEED!
- 90-Day Wonders
- “Cream Me Up, Scotty”
- Don’t Smoke ‘Em, Even If You Got ‘Em
- A Pill for Every Ill?
- Et tu Obama?
- …for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.
- Battle Royale — Compounders vs. Big Pharma
- No Pain, No Gain
- Ketamine, Kream, Kash & Konvicts
- What I Know Now
- Oh, What a Relief It Is!
- “Screw Them Until They Catch On!”
- Nurses and Networks – Jackpot!
- We Need More Cowbell
- Imagine There Is a Heaven
- When Settled Science Finally Settles
- Never Mind
- “When In Doubt, Don’t.”
- The $64,000 Question
- “We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us” ~ Walt Kelly’s Pogo
- The Knee Bone’s Connected to the Checkbook
- Breaking Bad Comp Style
- What Gets Clicked 4,000 Times a Day?
- “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me in the Morning.”
- Knowing Where to Look
- Hong Kong is Beautiful in September
- More Pills? Or More Pharmacists?
- It’s Your Money!
- Feelin’ the Love from Big Pharma
- Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying
- Not Covered by Insurance YET!
- I’ll Take Door Number 3
- Exaggerators, Malingerers and Morons
- Chump Change for Big Pharma
- $200 Billion Here, $200 Billion There….
- It’s Not What You Know…
- Attacking Narcotic Abuse One Pill at a Time
- Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi…You’re My Only Hope!
- “But Judge, I Never Inhaled.”
- As Usual…Follow the Money
- Well, I Guess We’ll Just Kill a Whole Bunch More
- Don’t Tase Me Bro…
- The Mr. Obvious Show
- What’s $648,000 in Savings? A Good Start!
- Hair of the Dog that Bit You
- “Hello, Seattle, I’m Listening.” –Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane
- …And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.
- Upcoming Conferences
- Big Foot Needs a Pain Pump
- They didn’t teach Latin at Gottschalk Jr High
- iPhone Delivers Baby
- My Achy Breaky…Wherever
- No Soup for You!!
- Tastes Great! Less Filling!
- The Survey Says – It’s Not My Fault
- A Few Doctors Are Just Plain Bad!
- Racketeering Is Not A Tennis Term
- Color Me Skeptical
- What You Need is a Smarter Doctor!!
- Close Encounters of the Medical Kind
- KentuckyOne Calls Out Doris Day
- Peeking Behind the Curtain
- Was That Wrong? Nobody Told Me That Was Wrong!
- Hoosiers Tell Pain Clinics — “You Think Bobby Was Tough?”
- Opiates? or Cheech and Chong?
- Knights of the Round Table
- Speeding or Defective Equipment?
- The Few. The Proud. The Marines.
- “A man’s gotta know his limitations.” ~Dirty Harry Callahan
- Hippocrates Never Imagined “Selfies”
- Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant
- The Wild West of Off-Label Use
- Got Milk? Or Got Pain?
- Run, Forrest. Run!
- Guidelines? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Guidelines!
- Laid Off?? Try Comp!!
- Once More Unto the Breach
- Physician Dispensing…the Rest of the Story!
- And Stay Out!!
- “If you build it…
- Who’s Cleaner, Your Healthcare Worker or a Little Leaguer?
- Sticky Claimant — Spray Some PAM
- Ruth Buzzi Morphs into Taylor Swift?
- Betcha Can’t Eat Just One
- A Pharmacist Owns a Hospital?!?
- Heroin Up — Pills Down
- The Elephant In The Room
- C’mon Man!!
- Slamming the Supplements
- A Baseball Player and a UR Nurse Go Into a Bar….
- Accountable Care Is Job One
- Walgreens — “Say it ain’t so”
- Your Surgeon Needs a “Time Out”
- AWP – Like Finding Sasquatch
- The Epidemic of 2013
- If You Don’t Know Diamonds, Then You Better Know Your Jeweler
- What’s so temporary about 5 years?
- Go Ask Alice
- Don’t Use the High Priced Spread
- PRESS RELEASE: Controlling Employers’ Drug Costs
- Care More or Kill More?
- Everybody Works on Monday
- Dead Man’s Hand
- Cannabis Positive? Get a Rope!
- Mysterious Menacing Microbes
- Riddle Me This, Batman
- Raquel Welch is 73!
- The Pros from Dover
- Never-Neverland
- For Whom The Bells Toll
- Treat’em and Street’em
- Dr. Mixology Hits Drug Superfecta!
- Obamacare wakes the sleeping giant
- FDA Crushes the Crushers
- HospitalMingle.com?
- Law of Unintended Consequences
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Where’s the Sponge…Bob?
- OMCA Hits 60 to 1 shot!
- Blinded By Transparency
- Bad Pharma!
- Lousy Lumbar Literature or Spinal Stenosis Solutions?
- Who Says You Can’t Get Something for Nothing?
- OxyContin or Art Therapy?
- “Move along, there’s nothing to see here!” ~ Lt. Frank Drebin
- Deal Yourself a Better Hand: The Allure of Self Insurance
- David vs. Goliath – KY Style
- Hydrocodone Drive Thru Closing
- Killer Generics! What’s Next?
- Doctors as Druggists? What’s up with that?
- 500 million dollar pork chop
- Big Pharma to Experience Pike Co. Hospitality
- Cost Cutting Strategy Proven Again and Again
- As if you needed another reason to avoid the hospital…
- Epidural steroid injections – Worth the Risk?
- OMCA Model Proven Effective in National Study
- House Bill 1- Boom or Bust?
- Death by Hospital Admission
- 23 dead, 14,000 frightened
- 15 Deaths Equal: One Suspended License
- Keep the “Whac-a-Mole” Hammer Handy
- One if By Land
- ♬ ♫ Welcome to the Hospital California ♬ ♫
- Extreme Couponing–Big Pharma Style
- Rich Dad/Poor Care
- What Comes First? The Chicken or the Irritable Bowels?
- Pharmacy Frequent Flyers
- Tough News for TENS Units
- It’s Not Our Problem – Or Is It?
- $2.1 Billion in Waste – How Much is Yours?
- Whac-A-Mole Kentucky Style
- Bueller? Bueller?
- Tennessee Draws A Hard Line In The Sand
- OxyContin For Kids!!
- Doctors Who Are Just Plain Bad
- Obese Claimants? Open Up Your Checkbook!!
- Inaccurate Medical Billings — A Huge Money Pit
- Appendicitis for $180,000 – What a Bargain!
- Price Caps on Work Comp Drugs—Missing the Big Picture
- Blocking & Tackling Fundamentals—Keys to Work Comp Success
- Steroid shots versus placebo? It’s a tie!!!
- Florida Workers’ Compensation Institute
- Business Insurance Spotlights Self-Insurance
- Unnecessary Drugs at Very Good Prices
- Squeezing TPA’s for Profit and Other Myths….
- Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Comp “Medicalization”
- UR means, never having to say UR sorry
- Action Speaks Louder Than…
- Following the Yellow Brick Road to Prescription Drugs
- Following the Money
- “How We Do Harm” by author Otis Webb Brawley MD, review by William Faris, JD
- Just When You Thought It Was Safe to…
- Flunking the Flim Flam Man
- Internet Fakes
- Big Pharma or Cash Cow?
- Blame the Freshman 15
- Candy is Dandy, But Liquor is Quicker
- Rehab through Volunteerism
- Diabetes PowerBall at 100 Million
- Wet Wipes For Grandpa
- Treat’em and Street’em
- Dr. Mixology hits drug Superfecta!
- Value Size My Health Care
- Opioid Funded Bass Boat For Sale
- Pay for Delay
- Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later?
- Dialysis or Amputation — You Pick!
- David vs. Goliath – KY Style
- When Less Is More
- No Free Lunch, No Free Drugs
- Branded with Brand Names
- New Hurdles for Vicodin Access
- Big Blue Scores! (IBM not UK)
- 500 million dollar pork chop
- Epidural steroid injections – Worth the Risk?
- Big Pharma to Experience Pike Co. Hospitality
- New Hurdles for Vicodin Access
- Cost Cutting Strategy Proven Again and Again
- Killer Super Bug-42 States and Growing
- “What’s New?” – Does the Doctor Know & Care?
- House Bill 1- Boom or Bust?
- KWCEA Hotel Update
- KWCEA Speaker Line Up
- Big Pharma Goes Groupon
- Do Your Comp Claimants Need the Pit?
- Extreme Couponing–Big Pharma Style
- Greed, Lies, and Looking the Other Way
- “What We’ve Got Here, Is a Failure to Communicate”
- Back to the Future: Chronic Pain Relief
- California Comp Premiums go UP! Due to Cost Reductions?
- Pikeville Pain Prescribers Penitentiary Payoff
- The Game In Claims Falls Mainly on the Pain
- A Billion Here, A Billion There…..
- How Morbid is This?
- Comp Low Hanging Fruit – Simple Med Only Claims
- Tough News for TENS Units
- CDC Announces Free Cure-All Wonder Treatment
- “Cookbook Medicine” as a Recipe for Success
- Pain Clinic Owner to Feel Real Pain
- $2.1 Billion in Waste – How Much is Yours?
- News From the Pain Management Front
- Why Your Comp Claimant Might Need Antidepressants or Anticonvulsants
- Pill Popping at Warp Speed
- 137 Million Chances for Abuse
- You “Made a Difference”!!
- Tennessee Draws A Hard Line In The Sand
- Someone Please Tell Me this is a Bad Joke.
- Cost Shifting Doesn’t Change Behavior
- $3 Billion Misdemeanor
- With Narcotics, Time is NOT on Your Side
- Obese Claimants? Open Up Your Checkbook!!
- $68 billion!
- “That’s Not Our Responsibility” Isn’t Always the Right Answer
- Medical Organizations and Prescription Drugs
- Dangerous hospitalizations
- Workers’ Compensation Institute (WCI) conference August 19-23
- Who knew? PBM’s make money selling drugs?
- Price Caps on Work Comp Drugs—Missing the Big Picture
- When Rosalie Speaks we all listen….!
- Squeezing TPA’s for Profit and other Myths…
- Snitch or Hero?
- Utilization Review means never having to say UR sorry
- You snooze, you lose! So, Wake Up!
- The World’s Most Unusual Compensable Injuries
- How Do I Know When the Work Comp Storm is Heading My Way?
- Business Insurance Spotlights Self-Insurance
- Following the Money
- A Billion Here, A Billion There
- “How We Do Harm”
- To Err is Human…and Deadly!
- The Myth of “It will all work out”.
- Good Gatekeeper–“Walking the Point”
- Is Care More No More?
- Healthcare’s One Percenters
- Secrets of an overworkered comp adjuster
- Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight
- Utilization Review–A Nuisance or Cost Saver?
- Just When You Thought It Was Safe to……
- Top Ten Things Your Workers’ Compensation Pain Management Provider May Not Have Explained:
- 5 Work Comp Truisms – OMCA
- AADEP/NCCI Report – Workers Compensation & Drug Costs
- Medicare Painkiller Abuse Prompts Crackdown
- Former Eastern Kentucky MD Pleads Guilty
- KWCEA Conference Posts Record Attendance (workers’ compensation)
- OMCA @ KWCEA conference December 1-2 2011
- 2011 KWCEA Registration
