Webinars
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December 1, 2025
Webinar: Psychosocial Factors and Functional Outcomes Following Physical Therapy.
The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) will host a 30-minute webinar on Thursday, January 15, 2025, at 2:00 PM ET, presenting findings…
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November 24, 2025
Recorded Webinar: Advanced Practitioners and Workers’ Compensation Claim Outcomes.
In this free 40-minute webinar held on Thursday, November 20, 2025, Bogdan Savych, WCRI senior policy analyst, presented findings from its recent…
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October 14, 2025
Recorded Webinar: Impact of California’s Heat Standard on Workers’ Compensation Outcomes
This 30-minute webinar held on Thursday, October 30, 2025, highlights findings from WCRI's latest report, Impact of California’s Heat…
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September 26, 2025
Recorded Webinar: Highlights of Florida’s Workers’ Compensation System
This free, 45-minute recorded webinar held on September 25, 2025, discussed the latest editions of CompScope™ Benchmarks for Florida and other…
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June 26, 2025
Recorded Webinar: Heat-Related Illnesses in the Workplace
In this free, 30-minute webinar held on June 26, 2025, author and senior policy analyst Dr. Vennela Thumula discussed WCRI's recent…
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March 20, 2025
Recorded Webinar: Workers’ Comp Claims Composition & Trends Around the Pandemic
In this 30-minute recorded webinar held on April 17, 2025, at 2 PM ET, Dr. Vennela Thumula discussed findings from a recent WCRI…
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November 1, 2024
Recorded Webinar: Impact of Attorney Representation on Workers’ Compensation Payments
In this 30-minute recorded webinar held on Thursday, November 21, 2024, Dr. Bogdan Sayvch discussed findings from the WCRI study Impact of Attorney…
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September 6, 2024
Recorded Webinar: Highlights of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation System
In a complimentary one-hour webinar on October 2, WCRI Policy Analyst William Monin-Browder and External Relations Director Kathy Fisher shared key…
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August 1, 2024
Recorded Webinar: Trends in Workers’ Compensation Drug Payments Across States
In this 30-minute webinar, Dr. Vennela Thumula discusses key findings from WCRI's study, Interstate Variation and Trends in Workers’…
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June 6, 2024
Recorded Webinar: Impact of Excessive Heat on Workplace Injuries
In this 30-minute webinar held on Thursday, June 6, 2024, WCRI Vice President of Research Sebastian Negrusa discussed findings from the…
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April 4, 2024
Recorded Webinar: Impact of Vertical Integration on Prices, Medical Utilization, and Outcomes
In this one-hour webinar held on May 2, 2024, WCRI Senior Policy Analyst Bogdan Savych shared highlights from three WCRI studies on the impact of…
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December 20, 2023
Recorded Webinar: Time to First Medical Service
In this 30-minute recorded webinar held on Jan. 11, WCRI Senior Research Analyst and author Dr. Rebecca Yang shared findings from Time to First…
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November 3, 2023
Recorded Webinar: CompScope™ Medical Benchmarks, 24th Edition
In this one-hour recorded webinar, WCRI Senior Analyst Carol Telles shared findings from CompScope™ Medical Benchmarks, 24th Edition and took…
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October 4, 2023
Recorded Webinar: Long COVID in the Workers’ Compensation System in 2020 and 2021
In this free recorded webinar, author Dr. Bogdan Savych shared findings from WCRI's study Long COVID in the Workers' Compensation System…
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September 6, 2023
Recorded Webinar: Medical Inflation in Workers’ Compensation
In this 30-min. recorded webinar, authors Olesya Fomenko and Rebecca Yang discussed findings and answered questions from Insights into Medical…
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June 22, 2023
Recorded Webinar: Extended Physical Medicine for Workers with Low Back Pain
In this one-hour recorded webinar, author Dongchun Wang presented findings from WCRI’s Factors Associated with Extended Use of Physical Medicine…
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May 11, 2023
Recorded Webinar: Designing a Workers’ Compensation Medical Fee Schedule
In this 30-minute recorded webinar, Dr. Olesya Fomenko presents findings from WCRI's study, Designing Workers’ Compensation Medical Fee…
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December 13, 2022
Recorded Webinar: Behavioral Health in Workers’ Compensation
In this free 30-minute recorded webinar, Dr. Vennela Thumula discussed findings from the WCRI study, A Primer on Behavioral Health Care in…
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November 17, 2022
Recorded Webinar: Delaware Workers’ Compensation System
In this 30-minute recorded webinar, Evelina Radeva discussed findings from the WCRI study Trends in the Delaware Workers’ Compensation System,…
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September 29, 2022
Recorded Webinar: Latest Workers’ Compensation Drug Trends in 28 States
In this 45-minute recorded webinar held on Sept. 29, Dr. Vennela Thumula and Dongchun Wang discussed findings from the WCRIFlashReport—Interstate…
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May 25, 2022
Recording Webinar: Patterns and Outcomes of Chiropractic Care
This 60-minute recorded webinar discussed findings from a recently published WCRI study, Chiropractic Care for Workers with Low Back Pain.…
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May 4, 2022
Recorded Webinar: Brown University School of Public Health’s Long COVID-19 Initiative
In this free 45-minute recorded webinar, WCRI Executive Vice President Ramona Tanabe talks with Dr. Francesca L. Beaudoin about Brown University…
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November 18, 2021
Recorded Webinar: Prescribing of Topical Analgesics and Gabapentinoids for Work-Related Injuries
In this 45-minute recorded webinar, author Vennela Thumula discussed findings from two WCRI studies, Topical Analgesic Use in Workers’…
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October 21, 2021
Recorded Webinar: Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on Opioid Utilization after Work-Related Injuries
In this free 45-minute webinar, author Bogdan Savych discussed findings from a recent WCRI study, Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on Opioid…
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June 3, 2021
Recorded Webinar: Interstate Variation and Trends in Workers’ Compensation Drug Payments: 2017Q1 to 2020Q1
In this free, recorded 45-minute webinar, Dr. Vennela Thumula and Dongchun Wang discussed key findings and took audience questions about the WCRI…
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April 28, 2021
Recorded Webinar: Reoperation & Readmission Rates for Workers’ Compensation Patients Undergoing Lumbar Surgery
In this one-hour recorded webinar, authors Dr. Rebecca Yang and Dr. Randy Lea discuss key findings and take audience questions about WCRI's…
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April 1, 2021
Recorded Webinar: Early Predictors of Longer-Term Opioid Dispensing
In this 45-minute webinar, Dr. Vennela Thumula and Dr. Bogdan Savych discuss the study they authored, Early Predictors of Longer-Term Opioid…
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December 21, 2020
Recorded Webinar: Early Physical Therapy for Injured Workers with Low Back Pain
In this one-hour recorded webinar, Ms. Dongchun Wang, Dr. Randy Lea, and Dr. Kathryn Mueller discuss the findings from their study, The Timing of…
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November 19, 2020
Recorded Webinar: Performance of the New York Workers’ Compensation System
In this free, one-hour recorded webinar, William Monnin-Browder and Carol Telles discussed key findings from the WCRI study they authored,…
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October 2, 2020
Recorded Webinar: Delivery of Medical Care and Return to Work During COVID-19
In this one-hour recorded webinar, WCRI President and CEO John Ruser interviewed Dr. Randy Lea and Dr. Mark Herbert about the delivery of medical…
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May 14, 2020
Recorded Webinar: COVID-19 Compensability
In this free 30-minute recorded webinar, WCRI CEO John Ruser and Judge David Langham, deputy chief judge of compensation claims for the Florida…
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January 10, 2020
Recorded Webinar: Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation System
In this free 30-minute recorded webinar, William Monnin-Browder, a policy analyst and author of WCRI's CompScope™ benchmarks studies,…
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November 12, 2019
Recorded Webinar: Latest Research on Fee Schedules and Medical Prices
The various design choices of fee schedule regulations and their impact on variation in medical prices and payments across state workers’…
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August 7, 2019
Recorded Webinar: Trends in Opioid Dispensing to Injured Workers
In this hour-long webinar, Dr. Vennela Thumula discussed the findings from a recently released WCRI study that found that fewer injured workers in…
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July 11, 2019
Recorded Webinar: Role of Medical Prices in Outcomes of Injured Workers
In this hour-long webinar, Dr. Bogdan Savych discussed findings from the WCRI study Workers’ Compensation Medical Prices and Outcomes of Injured…
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April 18, 2019
Recorded Webinar: Correlates of Opioid Dispensing in Workers’ Compensation
In this free one-hour webinar, WCRI provided an overview of its latest research on opioid dispensing to injured workers, and the National Institute…
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November 29, 2018
Recorded Webinar: Shift in Where Injured Workers Receive Medical Care
In the last decade or so, many medical services for injured workers have shifted from hospitals to nonhospital providers, including ambulatory…
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September 27, 2018
Recorded Webinar: Impact of Pennsylvania Physician Dispensing Reform and Emerging Trend of New Pharmacies
In this one-hour recorded webinar, Vennela Thumula and Dongchun Wang discuss WCRI research on the impact of Pennsylvania’s physician dispensing…
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May 23, 2018
Recorded Webinar: Impact of Opioid Prescriptions on Duration of Temporary Disability
In this 45-minute recorded webinar, Dr. Bogdan Savych discussed the findings from a recently published WCRI study, The Impact of Opioid…
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January 18, 2018
Recorded Webinar: Examining Hospital Reimbursement in Several States
In this one-hour recorded webinar, Carol Telles discusses the impact of changes to hospital reimbursement in the following states: Florida,…
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November 2, 2017
Recorded Webinar: Latest Research on Fee Schedules and Medical Prices
In this one-hour recorded webinar, authors Rebecca Yang and Olesya Fomenko discussed the various design choices of fee schedule regulations and…
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October 9, 2017
Recorded Webinar: Latest Worker Outcomes Research
In this free 45-minute recorded webinar, Dr. Bogdan Savych discussed the Institute's recently published worker outcomes studies, Comparing…
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September 7, 2017
Recorded Webinar: Latest Opioid Research
This webinar discusses WCRI's latest research on interstate variations and trends in the prescribing of opioids for workplace injuries. It was…
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May 23, 2017
Recorded Webinar: Provider Choice Research
Should the choice of provider in workers' compensation cases be left to workers or employers? We discuss our study, The Effects of Provider…
