ReedGroup announced Dr. Robert Dawes will join ReedGroup as the company’s new Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Dawes, a well-known and esteemed clinician, will be responsible for managing and building forward ReedGroup’s clinical management strategy. Dr. Dawes will report to CEO Sandy Callahan and serve on the executive management team. View the press release here.
MDGuidelines®, the leading evidence-based guidelines for disability and workers’ compensation, today released the MDGuidelines Duration Analyzer™, a new tool for benchmarking claims performance. View the press release here.
ReedGroup announces that its practice guidelines from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) are now available complimentary to providers who handle California workers’ compensation cases. California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) launches new website featuring ACOEM content and tools. View the press release here.
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian) today announced that Sandra (Sandy) Callahan has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of ReedGroup. View the press release here.
ReedGroup is today announcing the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)—a program of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)—has accepted ReedGroup’s MDGuidelines® for Low Back Disorders and Cervical and Thoracic Spine Disorders. View the press release here.
A Republican White House and Congress may impact the future of the absence management industry and U.S. employers, according to ReedGroup, a leading international health and productivity company. View the press release here.
ReedGroup, a leading provider of health and productivity solutions, announced today that Josh Protass has joined as the company’s General Counsel. View the press release here.
By Kevin Curry, Reed Group Senior Vice President and National Practice Leader As I reviewed the results of the in-depth survey that Reed Group conducted with Spring Consulting Group on employer practices around the Americans with Disabilities Act, I kept finding reminders of a simple fact: the ADA is not easy for employers to interpret. … Continued
Marti Cardi, Reed Group’s Chief Compliance Officer, appeared on our local NBC affiliate today to offer tips for employers trying to navigate the return-to-work landscape after a natural disaster, like the floods that have affected so many in Colorado. See the video.
Reed Group’s Chief Compliance Officer, Marti Cardi, was a lead speaker at the opening sessions of the 2013 Annual conference for the Disability Management Employer Coalition in Atlanta last week. The conference focused this year on mental and behavioral health issues. Keynote speaker Rosalynn Carter addressed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and … Continued
Marti Cardi, J.D., Chief Compliance Officer Megan G. Holstein, J.D., Senior Counsel Employers’ treatment of employees who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking (“domestic violence”) is an area of concern to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Although Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with … Continued
Marti Cardi, J.D., Chief Compliance Officer Megan G. Holstein, J.D., Senior Counsel On November 8, 2012, the EEOC achieved yet another multi-million dollar settlement in a lawsuit alleging systematic disability discrimination, specifically targeting an employer’s inflexible leave policy. Specifically, the employer’s policies required two things: first, any employee who took a leave of absence for … Continued
