By Liv Osby, The Greenville News Published August 10, 2006 The high cost of health insurance puts it out of the reach of many small businesses. And health care is so expensive that uninsured workers at those companies often can’t even afford a trip to the doctor for a minor illness. But small business leaders […]
by Michael Whiteley, WorkCompCentral August 4, 2006 Less than two months before South Carolina plans to make sweeping changes to its hospital payment schedule that could trim $60 million a year out of the workers’ compensation system, the state’s hospitals are scrambling for an alternative. The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission (SCWCC) voted 3-2 in
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Published in Lexington County Chronicle August 3, 2006 It is possible for small businesses to afford health care benefits for employees. That is the conclusion of a 10-month pilot program in Columbia engineered by The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce and the S.C. Primary Health Care Association. In September of last year, Mid-Carolina Steel
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By Mike Whiteley, WorkCompCentral Published July 12, 2006 South Carolina state Sen. Gerald Malloy compares the state’s proposed 32.9% hike in workers’ compensation rates and news that a computer glitch by the National Council on Compensation Insurance may have clouded past rates to a baby dinosaur growing up in the back yard. Now, says the
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By Mike Whiteley, WorkCompCentral July 10, 2006 Nearly a year before news surfaced of a National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI) computer glitch that has triggered millions in refunds to employers, South Carolina’s chief casualty actuary Dean Kruger put reports of the trouble in a file for the state’s insurance attorneys. Known around the state
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By Peter Hull, The Post and Courier Published July 10, 2006 It makes no difference whether Charleston house painter Kevin Miksch kneels down to paint a baseboard or climbs a 20-foot-tall extension ladder outside a building. He pays the same workers’ compensation premiums either way, he said. If the ladder is secure and complies with
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by Michael Whiteley, WorkCompCentral July 5, 2006 South Carolina’s consumer advocate and an attorney for the National Council on Compensation Insurance clashed sharply late last week over what NCCI should have told the state about a nationwide computer glitch that triggered refunds to employers in at least six other states. The state consumer advocate says
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by Michael Whiteley, WorkCompCentral Published June 30, 2006 Virginia regulators said Thursday that employers in the state will get refunds amounting to $1 million to $1.2 million because of a National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) computer glitch. The Bureau of Insurance is still sorting through at least 32 classification codes for which rates were
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By Staff/Wire reports, The Greenville News June 27, 2006 The state Workers’ Compensation Commission OK’d a plan Monday that should cut payments to hospitals that treat injured workers. Hospitals will get $62.1 million less for inpatient and outpatient care under the plan set to begin in October, said Gary Thibault, commission executive director. “This is
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By Jim Sams, WorkCompCentral June 26, 2006 At least four states have ordered insurers to refund premium overpayments caused by a problem with the payroll-data reporting system used by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, but insurance commissioners in other states have chosen not to pursue refunds and to allow NCCI to fix the problem
