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The shift to value-based healthcare creates staggering opportunities to cut workers' comp costs while improving outcomes for workers.

Although the option industry is new and does not provide all the data that workers' comp does, rapid progress is being made.

While the world has moved on from parachute pants, many workers' compensation payment processes are as outdated as a Sony Walkman.

Nurse triage is spreading from big firms to boutique, regional firms as a way to control costs. And telemedicine changes the whole game for workers' comp.

The election year, Obamacare and possible federalization of workers' comp could all hit the industry in 2016.

Insurers can increase the opt-in for optional products like disability by streamlining the enrollment process with modern technology.

Mediation can close those nagging, old cases where the worker represents himself and may not even state a recognizable claim.

A holiday reflection on how mediation in workers' comp cases can save time and trouble and keep everyone out of court.