It’s critical for the health of employees—and the business—that leaders put wellness at the very center of their plans. But how? Here, we share tactical ways to support the physical, emotional and social health of employees and build a culture of wellness, inspired by companies leading the charge and our own work addressing these three areas here at Viscardi.

Here are a few examples of companies that have been proactive about addressing and reducing workplace injuries and fatalities—and how they’re going about it.

Here’s what you need to know about navigating the medical management process for employees injured in NY and living elsewhere.

With the likelihood of a workplace opioid overdose at an all-time high, what can you do to ensure that employees at all levels of your company are equipped to handle an incident?

If your organization has begun prioritizing safety initiatives but you’re still not seeing results, here are three ways your corporate culture might be contributing to your out-of-work employees.

The Workers’ Compensation Board has a fairly comprehensive rundown on its Ongoing Maintenance Care program here. If you have any questions specific to your case or know you need some OMC experts to help navigate the process, shoot us an email. We’d be happy to help.

Medical case managers play a critical role in getting injured workers healthy and back to work, while acting as a trusted liaison between HR teams, insurance companies, doctors and more. Here, we take a closer look at how medical case managers support multiple stakeholders in the aftermath of a workplace injury.

Here are 10 revealing statistics about the current state of the telemedicine industry post-pandemic and how patients and providers are successfully using telemedicine.

While catastrophic injuries (thankfully) account for a small portion of workers’ compensation claims, they represent a large portion of total workers’ compensation losses. Here’s what to do when a catastrophic injury takes place at work.

In Part Three of our Language of Workers’ Compensation series, we outline the leading challenges non-English speaking employees face when they get hurt on the job and how, as an employer, it’s critical that you put proactive practices in place to better support their recovery.

We’re tackling the most important acronyms to help employers, carriers and injured workers more easily navigate the workers’ comp industry here in New York.

The four most important things you need to know about New York’s Ongoing Maintenance Care program to ensure you’re meeting the criteria outlined by MTG.

Each stakeholder comes from a different perspective, has different motivations and uses different language to talk about the injured worker and their injury. Here’s a brief rundown on the main players in an injured worker case.

To date, workers' compensation claims in NY (and a few other states) have utilized an alternate form in order to substantiate injury and treatment. The New York State Workers' Compensation Board has now updated the process of claims submission and is holding the workers' comp payers to the same electronic filing of claims for billing. Enter: the revised CMS-1500.