DePaolo's World

I'm not a very good businessman. Sure, I have a Masters in Business Administration, but that just means I could read books and pass test...

When I started in the workers' compensation field, medical treatment requests needed only a physician's opinion that it was reasonab...

The Workers' Compensation Research Institute hosted a webinar yesterday about cost shifting to workers' compensation from general he...

The Workers' Compensation Research Institute's latest study essentially states that financial incentives influence treatment co...

I flew home anxious from the Summer California Applicants' Attorneys Association conference in Las Vegas Saturday; there were some tast...

Medical Provider Networks, introduced into the California workers' compensation system around 2003, are one form of managed care. T...

I've been of the opinion lately that workers' compensation in 10 years is going to look much different than it does now, if it is ...

I haven't yet checked into the Workers' Compensation Research Institute's annual conference in Boston this morning, but I...

A couple of weeks ago Joe Paduda in his Managed Care Matters blog posted that there was a suspicious upcoding of physical therapists billin...

As the Ebola scare was developing there was speculation about the applicability of workers' compensation to such cases. Now that 2 nu...

Yesterday, after posting about mental health and its importance to the overall workers' compensation claims process I went for my mornin...

Well I did it. I had an occupational/industrial "injury." Thursday afternoon I arose from my desk, turned to one side in a sli...

After Dad died my siblings and I made arrangements for Mom at the best memory care facility we could find. My eldest sister has worked in ...

As I said yesterday, one of the more exciting things to me about attending the Workers' Compensation Research Institute's annual con...