Introduction
Brian Holmes, M.O.S.T. Program Director, TN Bureau of Workers' Compensation
Presenters
Dr. David Aronoff, Professor & Addison B. Scoville Jr. Chair in Medicine; Director, Division of Infectious Diseases; Department of Medicine; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. James B. Talmage, Assistant Medical Director, Bureau of Workers’ Compensation; Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Occupational Medicine; Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College
Dr. Robert Snyder, Medical Director, TN Bureau of Workers’ Compensation
Session Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everyone’s life, personal and professional, vocation and avocation, religious and secular. With the challenges of business closures, unemployment, furloughs, and quarantines, the system of Workers’ Compensation has been affected from top to bottom. The perspective of the medical provider and employer will be presented with up-to-date information about the nature of treatment, medical care and the status and protections for health care workers. Basic information will include the present incidence and updates on the status of treatments, vaccines and spread. Data from the Bureau will be given concerning claims status, and impact on employees, employers and payers.
Learning objectives:
- Be aware of the current views of a large health care provider about care of the patients and their employees.
- Learn up-to-date information about treatments, status of vaccine and testing.
- Understand the present position of workers, employers and payers in claims for COVID-19 illness related to work.
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