July 2, 2024 – Lakewood Ranch, FL – WorkCompCollege.com, a division of Workers’ Compensation Educational Services, LLC, has announced a Bronze Associate Partnership with Rising Medical Solutions (Rising). Their mission to “make lives better” is consistent with the whole-person recovery paradigm embedded in WCC’s curriculum.
Jul
02
Rising Medical Solutions Becomes Bronze Associate Partner of WorkCompCollege.com | Jul 2024
Jun
26
Webinar to Examine Latest Work Comp Benchmarking Study Data, Revealing Survey Results from More Than 1,300 Frontline Claims Professionals | Jun 2024
June 26, 2024 – Chicago, IL – Experts from Rising Medical Solutions’ annual Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study will dissect the most recent study data in a free webinar on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. The webinar, entitled “The View from the Front Lines of Claims Management,” will use the study’s latest survey results to examine how frontline claims talent views their profession and the tools transforming the industry.
Jun
19
Rising Appoints Industry Veteran John Paolacci as Chief Operating Officer | Jun 2024
June 19, 2024 – Chicago, IL – Longtime managed care executive John Paolacci has joined Rising Medical Solutions (Rising) as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. In this role, John will be responsible for continuous product optimization through customer delivery for all of Rising’s medical cost containment and medical care management services. Additionally, John will oversee the company’s Medicare compliance solutions, including its Section 111 reporting, a service line poised for growth given the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services impending changes to Medicare Set Aside reporting requirements.
May
21
Rising Receives Milwaukee, Chicago, and National “Top Workplaces” Awards | May 2024
May 21, 2024 – Milwaukee, WI – Adding to its 2023 Top Workplaces award for the healthcare industry, Rising Medical Solutions (Rising) today announced it has been named a 2024 Top Workplaces winner by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel which bestowed this title on 169 firms out of the 2,890 eligible in the region. With offices in multiple markets, this is the second regional Top Workplaces award Rising has won in the past six months, having been recently recognized as a premier workplace by the Chicago Tribune. Earlier this year, USA Today also named Rising a 2024 Top Workplaces USA winner, a national award that spans across all industries.
Jan
17
Rising Achieves HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certification Demonstrating the Highest Level of Information Protection Assurance | Jan 2024
January 17, 2024 – Chicago, IL – Rising Medical Solutions (Rising), a national managed care firm, announced today that its VISIONTM enterprise platform, along with its cloud-based data center solution, have earned HITRUST certification for information security.
Rising’s proprietary VISIONTM healthcare management platform streamlines claims administration and provides a fully integrated, multi-product, multi-line, medical management portal for its payer customers. The HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified status demonstrates that Rising’s VISIONTM software, and its underlying data center security controls, meet demanding regulatory compliance and industry-defined requirements to manage risk. This achievement places Rising in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this distinction.
Nov
15
Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study’s 2023 Survey Underway, Polling Frontline Claims Professionals for First Time Since COVID | Nov 2023
November 15, 2023 – Chicago, IL – The Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study’s annual survey is now open. For the second time in its 11-year history—and for the first time since COVID—the 2023 study will survey frontline claims professionals (instead of claims executives) to ascertain alignment between industry leadership and staff who directly handle workers’ compensation claims. As the industry’s largest talent constituency, with the greatest influence on financial and injured worker outcomes, visibility into their views will highlight advancement opportunities for the entire industry.
Sep
18
Annual Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study Releases 10-Year Industry Report Card, Reveals Claims Management Progress & Performance Differentiators | Sep 2023
September 18, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Since 2013, Rising Medical Solutions’ annual Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study has surveyed more than 3,600 claims leaders and frontline claims professionals on their top operational priorities, challenges, and opportunities, as well as their strategies for improving claim outcomes.
Now, with the release of its tenth Study Report, this national research program reveals the trajectory of how claims management has (or has not) progressed over the past decade––ultimately delivering a 10-year industry report card.