CDC offers guidance for medicine
- The CDC released updated and expanded recommendations for clinicians providing care for adult outpatients with short- and long-term pain.
- These clinical recommendations should help clinicians work with their patients to ensure the safest and most effective pain care is provided.
- The guideline addresses the following area determining whether to initiate opioids for pain and selecting opioids and determining opioid dosages.
- It also helps decide the duration of initial opioid prescription and conduct follow-up, and 4) assess risk and address potential harms of opioid use.
Workers comp firm has more expansion
- Slice Labs Inc. added five states for their workers’ compensation product.
- In addition to Georgia and Illinois, agents in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, and Missouri can now quote and bind in minutes with workers’ comp insurance.
- The AERO Insurance Workers’ Comp product supports primary industries such as automobile service, construction, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail/wholesale.
- “This expansion continues Slice’s growth momentum and commitment to small business protection, especially as other insurtechs pull out of these markets,” CEO Tim Attia said.
OSHA to find more clarity for workers
- The Dept. of Labor proposed a rule to revise the current test for determining whether an individual is an employee pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act, or an independent contractor.
- There is a six-factor test to determine whether a worker is “economically dependent” on an employer that centers around the worker’s opportunity for profit or loss depending on managerial skill and investments.
- The test determines the degree of permanence of the working relationship and the nature and degree of control over whether the employer sets the worker’s schedule
- The Labor Dept will also consider the extent to which the work performed is an integral part of the employer’s business and the skill/initiative of workers who use specialized skills brought or is dependent on training.
Doctor charged with mult9millon dollar scam
- A federal grand jury charged Sohail Mamdani of Los Banos, Calif.., with mail fraud and money laundering in connection to a disability insurance fraud scheme.
- He is also accused of the unlawful use of a DEA registration number and fraudulently obtaining possession of a controlled substance.
- Mamdani was a medical doctor operating a clinic called Walk-In Medical Clinic in Los Banos.
- Mamdani allegedly submitted over 6,000 initial claims to EDD for disability insurance payments despite having never seen or treated the majority of the claimants.