Over the past five years, higher performing claims organizations have adopted practices to better target six key drivers of claims costs. In this first of two articles, David Huth, Chief Operating Officer, examines three of these cost drivers and the proven strategies for impacting them.
Nov
06
Is Your Claims Management Advancing with the Industry? Part 1 by David Huth, Chief Operating Officer | WorkCompWire | Nov 2018
Aug
01
Work Comp Benchmark Study: Top 3 Ways to Close the Claims Performance Gap | Aug 2018
Study results indicates only 24 percent of claims organizations are high performers, so how do the other 76 percent catch up? This short report – “How to Close the Claims Performance Gap: Top 3 Findings in 5 Years of the Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study” – condenses the study’s multi-year benchmarking data into the top three practices claims organizations should adopt to join their more successful peers, or risk falling further behind. >> Five minutes to read.
Apr
13
Predictive Analytics Making Inroads Outside of Underwriting featuring Rising’s Work Comp Benchmark Study | Work Comp Central | Apr 2018
A new A.M. Best survey demonstrates a growing number of workers’ comp insurers are fighting back against rising injury severity by using predictive analytics to lower claim and fraud costs. Rising’s 2017 Workers’ Comp Benchmarking Study was cited in support of A.M. Best’s findings, with our own survey data showing increased adoption of predictive analytics among claims organizations in the past three years.
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Dec
20
How Artificial Intelligence Might Work for Us featuring Rising’s Work Comp Benchmark Study | WorkersCompensation.com | Dec 2017
Industry journalist and consultant, Peter Rousmaniere, uses data from Rising’s Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study to discuss how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help the workers’ compensation industry. In the article, he shares how AI can go beyond prediction to help payers remove errors in their claims management processes.
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Oct
03
Work Comp Benchmark Study Releases White Paper on How Claims Teams Can Achieve Mastery | Oct 2017
The highest percentage of claims leaders (46 percent) surveyed in Rising’s 2017 Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study believe adjusters become expert at claims management within four to six years on the job. This begs the question, what makes a claims expert and how do adjusters become one? In this short report – Do “10,000 Hours” Make a Great Claims Professional? How Claims Teams Can Achieve Peak Performance – we feature expert interviews from Albertsons, Sedgwick, Daimler Trucks North America, and industry consultants to investigate strategies for mastery development and to provide claims leaders with a practical guide for improving workplace performance. >> Five minutes to read.
Jul
03
Payers Turn to Physician Reviews to Resolve Complex Claims featuring Anne Kirby, Chief Compliance Officer & VP of Care Management | Work Comp Central | Jul 2017
As many as a quarter of serious workers’ comp claims — those with more than 30 days of lost time — involve a misdiagnosis or inappropriate treatment, according to a report by Best Doctors. Anne Kirby, Rising’s Chief Compliance Officer & VP of Care Management, comments on the report’s findings and the use of physician reviews as an effective tool for addressing misguided care.
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Mar
28
ACA’s Solution – Treat Health Insurance like Other Insurance by Rising CEO Jason Beans | Risk & Insurance | Mar 2017
Making health insurance viable for everyone means treating it like other forms of personal insurance. In his Risk & Insurance Risk Insider column, Rising CEO Jason Beans outlines strategies for restructuring the Affordable Care Act (ACA).