BWC’s Vocational Rehab Program Overview
When an employee is injured on the job, it can be a real gut punch for you and your company. Not only are you worried about the health and safety of your injured worker and focused on ensuring that the incident leading to their injury doesn’t recur, but you also have...
Transitional Work – What is it and Why is it Important?
Transitional Work is a “return to work” tool available for employers that have an employee injured on the job and now have restrictions preventing them from fulfilling their position’s duties. Now there is a Transitional Work Program to help employers facing this...
MCO Basics
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) understands that handling workers’ comp claims and tending to the needs of injured workers can be difficult for many businesses to accomplish on their own. For this reason, all Ohio employers are required to select a...
MCO Best Practices
When it comes to selecting a managed care organization (MCO) to provide medical management for your workers’ compensation claims, keep in mind that not all MCOs are created equally. While MCOs are required to perform the same basic functions, Sheakley UniComp has...