WorkersComp Forum™: Principals Maddy Bowling & David Huth write a monthly columnn for Risk & Insurance's WorkersComp Forum™ focused on the latest industry trends, issues and cost-containment strategies. David's latest columns can always be found here, and Maddy's are available here.

Apr 2009: Principals Maddy Bowling & David Huth write about new, outcome-oriented, doctor-centric models that are challenging the traditional industry PPO giants in the April edition of Risk & Insurance magazine.

Dec 2008: In their second industry-wide survey of offshoring trends, David Huth & Maddy Bowling find that the workers' compensation and disability markets may be warming to the idea of offshoring certain aspects of the claims process. The survey summary results can be found here.

Nov 2008: Maddy Bowling presented with Joel Raedeke, AVP ESIS Strategic Outcomes on the topic of using data analytics to intelligently control claim costs at the 17th Annual National Workers' Compensation & Disability conference in Las Vegas. Their complete presentation entitled, Analytics: How Your TPA's Data Can Help You Reduce Claims Costs is available here.

Apr 2008: Risk & Insurance Magazine:
"Running Workers' Compensation Utilization Reviews" by Maddy Bowling
As industry consensus builds that spiraling WC medical costs are being driven primarily by increasing utilization rather than unit cost growth, Maddy provides key insights on how companies can maximize the impact of their Utilization Review programs in the April edition of Risk & Insurance magazine.

Mar 2008: Workers' Compensation Report:
Maddy gave a detailed interview to the Workers Compensation Report on the increasingly important role technology can play in creating a system that focuses on outcomes rather than process. The full interview can be found here.

Nov 2005 - Risk & Insurance Magazine:
The second installment of Maddy Bowling & David Huth's article on "Pushing a Revolutionary WC Agenda" is featured in this month's Risk & Insurance magazine. Part II of the "Revolution" focuses on Return to Work issues.

July 2005 - Risk & Insurance Magazine:
"Pushing a Revolutionary Agenda" by Maddy Bowling
"The comprehensive changes in the California Workers' Comp laws now give us the chance to reshape the delivery of health care in the workers' comp marketplace..."

Spring 2004 - Insurance International
"Managing Outcomes in Workers' Compensation" by Maddy Bowling
"From Hands Off to Managed Care to Injury Management" answers the following questions: Can managed care really operate as an integral component of a workers’ compensation program? Is managed care the answer to skyrocketing costs in the workers’ compensation line? Is there an approach beyond managed care that might provide more comprehensive and valuable business solutions?

Fall 2003 - The Journal of Workers Compensation:
"The Fifth Annual Survey of Managed Care Performance" by Maddy Bowling, David Huth & Peter Rousmaniere
"The Annual Survey on Workers Compensation Managed Care Performance continues to ask pertinent questions about best practices in our community of employers, medical providers, managed care organizations, claims payers, regulators, consultants, and others. This year we confronted the issue of the growing duration of disability as a factor in increasing claims severity..."

Sept 2003 - Risk & Insurance Magazine:
"Part I - Rethinking 'Sacred Cows' in Measuring Comp Claims" by Maddy Bowling & David Huth
"Our recent survey of claims payers' quality assurance programs suggests that many companies still define quality in terms of process measures...but recent research suggests that traditional process measures do not have as much of an impact on claims costs as previsously thought."

" Part II - How Emerging Technologies Improve Claims Quality" by Maddy Bowling & David Huth
"While many workers' compensation payers have begun to change how they define claims quality, new technology is beginning to facilitate a more revolutionary change in how they measure quality..."

July 2003 - California Workers Compensation Executive Magazine:
"Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Tool or Target in WC Cost Containment Efforts?" by Maddy Bowling & David Huth
"Much of the blame for California’s rapidly increasing WC medical costs has been directed at the growing use of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs). Originally conceived of as a lower cost alternative to increasingly expensive inpatient hospital care, ASC use has exploded over the past decade....."

March 2003 - Risk & Insurance Magazine:
"Workers' Compensation Rate Adequacy: Is It Enough?" by Maddy Bowling
"Yet, as we dig deeper into the industry problems and explore the cost trends in the charts below, we are forced to ask ourselves some questions...
• Will premium rate increases be able keep up with increasing loss severity?
• Even if rate increases help, how long can we count on this ‘hard market’?
• Wouldn’t the...industry profitability improve dramatically if we became...more successful at returning injured workers to the workplace..."

Fall 2002 - The Journal of Workers Compensation:
'Measuring Managed Care Performance: Fourth Annual Survey Results' by Peter Rousmaniere & Maddy Bowling
"We are pleased to present these results from the 4th Annual Survey of Measuring Workers Compensation Managed Care/Injury Management Performance. Again, as in years past, the goal of this annual survey is to provide a forum on managed care/injury management performance for insurers, employers, managed-care organizations, physicians, clinicians, and other professionals involved in workers compensation. We are committed to the promotion of consensus on ways to improve the workers compensation system...."

March/April 2002 - California Workers Compensation Executive Magazine:
'A Lost Art, RTW for Injured Workers in California'  by Maddy Bowling
"Have we lost the "Art of RTW" in workers' compensation in California? There was a clear intent and direction when workers' compensation insurance was first established nationally. The original intent was to ensure that an injured worker did not have to litigate in order to obtain medical coverage and every opportunity to return to work. Have we veered off course and lost our way? Let's examine the evidence..."

August 2001 - Risk & Insurance Magazine:
'From Managed Care to Injury Management' by Maddy Bowling
"Over the years in response to this cyclical life we, in Workers' Compensation, have employed managed care concepts and tools that had originally been introduced in the Healthcare Industry. Although it took us several years of trial and error, we modified the Group Health Managed Care tools to make them relevant to the needs and problems in the Workers' Compensation industry..."