Clinical Blogs

Workers’ compensation claims are no strangers to chronic conditions. "Chronic" refers to a condition or illness that persists for a year or longer. In workers’ compensation we see this in patients who are dealing with chronic pain, pre-existing comorbidities and presumptive illnesses/conditions.

In our latest Risk & Insurance interview, Paul King, president of MyMatrixx by Evernorth, discusses why pharmacy benefit managers (PBM's) matter in workers' comp.

In recent years, an expensive treatment known as MACI has been gaining traction in workers’ compensation claims. Read more about what MACI is, how it works, and more.

When you combine a chronic disease with a workplace injury, you have to think bigger to manage medications and treatment. Check out our WorkCompWire Partner Post where Paul King, president of MyMatrixx by Evernorth, reviews the steps MyMatrixx is taking to treat the whole patient.

For the past few years, there has been an influx of presumptive coverage legislation related to expanding workers’ comp coverage for disease states, such as certain types of cancer, hypertension and other cardiovascular conditions, respiratory, including asthma and COPD, long COVID, and mental health mostly targeting PTSD.

Along with life, technology and automation are also moving pretty fast. From how we make phone calls to how we build cars, to even how we manage claims, over time, manual processes are automated to help people perform tasks faster and more efficiently, which is good because, now more than ever, we are expected to do more with less.

If you search the function of a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), the internet responds with “an intermediary between health plans, pharmacies, and drug manufacturers to negotiate drug prices and manage prescription drug benefits.” This is true, but they can and should do so much more.

If you search the function of a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), the internet responds with “an intermediary between health plans, pharmacies, and drug manufacturers to negotiate drug prices and manage prescription drug benefits.” This is true, but they can and should do so much more.

In their latest WorkCompWire Leaders’ Speak article, MyMatrixx by Evernorth experts, Brandie Traylor, Vice President of Product Management, and Cliff Belliveau, Chief Innovation Officer, discuss the “bad actors” that are hiding withing workers’ comp claims and the clinical and financial benefit of a strong FWA program.

A doctor writes the prescription. A pharmacy fills the prescription. A patient gets the prescription. This straightforward process takes place every day, and most prescriptions are filled without issue and follow all the appropriate pricing and dispensing rules.