Press Releases

September 29, 2022 – Chicago, IL – Rising Medical Solutions (Rising) today announced that experts from its Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study will be featured in a panel discussion at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. The session will reveal the top obstacles that both claims leaders and frontline claims personnel have repeatedly cited in the Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study’s annual research.

The conference session, titled Do This Now! Strategies High Performers are Using to Surmount Claims Management Obstacles, includes an esteemed panel of industry leaders who will discuss the top three (3) consistently ranked barriers to achieving optimal outcomes and provide expert perspectives on how claims organizations are making headway.  Specifically, they’ll discuss strategies for best facilitating return-to-work, ways to improve injured worker engagement to stave off litigation, and methods for better equipping frontline staff to address comorbidities and psychosocial issues. The panel will also explore how worker-centric approaches are a key remedy.

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August 29, 2022 – Chicago, IL – As modern workplaces continue to evolve in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, so too must workers’ compensation claims organizations in order to achieve optimal outcomes. Yet, standing in the way are deeply entrenched challenges that more than 3,300 claims leaders and frontline professionals have brought to the forefront in previous Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study research.

“Eight years of data shows—to succeed in the face of core claims challenges—organizations need to transform legacy processes, mindsets, semantics, and ingrained cultural practices. Specifically, our data shows that those claims organizations with superior outcomes are also those who are further along in this transformation process,” said Rachel Fikes, chief experience officer and study program director at Rising Medical Solutions. “With this in mind, our latest research brought together claims leaders from diverse organizations to dig deeper into exactly how they are evolving to outpace their peers.”

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May 26, 2022 – Chicago, IL – Experts from Rising Medical Solutions’ annual Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study will share the most recent research findings in a free webinar on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. Entitled “Three Obstacles to Providing Superior Claims Performance and What Organizations Must Do to Overcome Them,” the webinar will detail the consistently top ranked impediments to claims management mastery and how higher performing organizations are surmounting them.

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April 26, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA and Chicago, IL – Transparent Health Marketplace, Inc. (THM), the leading transformative healthtech company, today announced that national managed care firm, Rising Medical Solutions (Rising), has selected the THM digital marketplace platform to allow payor customers to automatically source and schedule faster care for patients, with total price transparency.

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February 3, 2022 – Chicago, IL – Four veteran client services professionals have joined Rising Medical Solutions (Rising) to provide business development, account management, and program implementation services for the company’s growing client base. These executives will provide consultative account services to establish and maintain strong customer relationships throughout the client lifecycle.

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October 13, 2021 – Chicago, IL – Rising Medical Solutions (Rising) today announced that experts from its Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study will be featured in a panel discussion at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas on October 20, 2021. The session will examine eight years of study results from more than 3,000 claims leaders and frontline claims personnel to understand what data trends are telling us about claims organization resiliency in the workers’ compensation industry.

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August 18, 2021 – Chicago, IL – With unpredictable disruption predicted at greater frequency in the future, the workers’ compensation industry is no exception to finding itself in a highly uncertain business environment, despite our risk models and mitigation efforts. Past performance will no longer predict future success in workers’ compensation. Organizational resiliency will play a vital role.

Now, with the release of its eighth Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study Report, this national research program continues to break new ground by investigating organizational resiliency in two (2) key ways.

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