Rainey Kizer Attorney Michael Mansfield Updates State Nurses Association on Tennessee’s Workers’…

September 17th, 2011  

Michael Mansfield, a partner in the Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell, PLC law firm was a featured speaker during the Tennessee Association of Occupational Health Nurses 37th Annual Convention in Jackson. Mansfield gave the group an update on Tennessee’s Workers’ Compensation Utilization Review program.

As defined by the Tennessee Department of Labor, utilization review is the evaluation, of the necessity, appropriateness, efficiency, and quality of medical care services provided to injured employees by certified physicians. The program is intended to contain the cost of providing injured workers with medical treatment through the workers’ compensation system, while simultaneously increasing the quality of care the employees receive.

 

“Occupational health nurses are often on the front lines of workers’ compensation claims,” Mansfield told the conference. “Employers who provide workers’ compensation benefits, employees who receive workers’ compensation benefits, and the Utilization Review professionals who work to keep workers’ compensation costs down in Tennessee all depend on you to effectively manage those claims.”

 

He also advised that they work closely with their company’s workers’ compensation physicians to coordinate the best and most cost-effective care possible for their company’s employees.

 

Mansfield is a member of the firm’s Employment Law Group, and he regularly advises corporate clients with regard to employment law matters in addition to serving as editor of the firm’s semi-annual Employment Law Newsletter. His areas of practice include insurance defense, insurance coverage, employment law, and workers’ compensation defense.

 

Law & PoliticsMagazine identified Mansfield as a Super Lawyers™ “Rising Star.” He recently has contributed chapters to both the Tennessee and Kentucky editions of the Defense Research Institute’s Compendium of Law.

 

 

For additional information on this release, please contact:

Casey Smith

Phone: (731) 426-8122

Email: csmith@raineykizer.com

 

Source: Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell, P.L.C.

Website: https://raineykizer.com