Progressive Medical White Paper Addresses the Workers’ Compensation Grey Zone Medication Maze

White paper offers strategies to navigate the complexities associated with ensuring injured workers receive appropriate medications

WESTERVILLE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Progressive Medical, Inc. (http://www.progressive-medical.com) announced today the availability of its latest white paper, “Strategies for Navigating the Grey Zone Medication Maze.” The white paper provides workers’ compensation payors insight on how to manage the increasing challenges associated with ensuring medications are appropriate for a claim.

Key highlights of “Strategies for Navigating the Grey Zone Medication Maze” include:

• Definition and classifications of grey zone medications in workers’ compensation
• Common grey zone drugs, including the situations and reasons why they are labeled grey zones
• Best practices for ensuring medications are appropriate for the injured worker based on injury and medical history

“Managing workers’ compensation medication utilization has become increasingly difficult for payors as new drugs become available and the medical histories of our workforce become more complex,” said Tron Emptage, chief clinical and compliance officer for Progressive Medical. “By putting proactive strategies into place for managing these grey areas, payors will reduce risk to the injured worker and decrease opportunities for fraud, misuse and abuse.”

Visit Progressive Medical’s Grey Zone Resource Center to request a copy of the white paper at http://www.workcomptransformation.com/grey-zone-medications.

About Progressive Medical, Inc.

Progressive Medical (http://www.progressive-medical.com), through a national network, offers cost management services and products to the workers’ compensation and auto no-fault insurance industries. Progressive Medical has 25 years of experience in developing innovative pharmacy management and ancillary solutions for its clients. By combining clinical expertise with access to an expansive network of pharmacies, home health care services and medical equipment, Progressive Medical enables its clients to manage costs while providing quality care to injured parties.

Learn more at www.progressive-medical.com or call 800.777.3574.

For Progressive Medical, Inc.
Media/Industry Analyst ContactStacy Wood, 614-540-5520
[email protected]

Source: Progressive Medical, Inc.