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Substance Use Disorder
Millions of adolescents and adults are impacted by Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) in the United States. SUDs result from addiction to drugs, alcohol or tobacco and can affect people from all walks of life and all age groups. SUDs are common, recurrent and...
Mindful Monday : Three Good Things
Think About This In our day-to-day lives, it's easy to get caught up in the things that go wrong and feel like we're living under our own private rain cloud; at the same time, we tend to adapt to the good things and people in our lives, taking them for granted. As a...
Anxiety : Myths vs. Reality
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the Unites States, affecting 40 million adults in the U.S. aged 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year.1 Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet less than 40% of those suffering from anxiety get...
When PTSD Is The Injury, Injured Workers Need More Than Medical Care
As the workers’ comp industry better understands the relationship between mental and physical health, a new generation of industry executives are leading the way to better biopsychosocial treatment. Much of the discussion around coverage of PTSD by worker’s...
Carisk Intelligent Clearinghouse Webinar
Joseph Berardo, Jr., CEO, Sally Balioni, Sales Manager, and Dr. Bill DeGasperis, President of Specialty Services present a workers' compensation & auto legislative update as well as an overview of Carisk Intelligent Clearinghouse e-billing. Watch video here :...
Optum Continuing Education with Carisk Partners
Find out the impact mental health can play on physical health in this joint continuing education presentation between Optum Workers’ Company and Auto No-Fault and Carisk Partners. Experts from both companies will help you understand what you need to do, watch for and...
Carisk Intelligent Clearinghouse Free Webinar
Please join us on Thursday, March 28 at 2:00PM EST for a free educational webinar. Topics will include a workers' compensation & auto legislative update as well as our clearinghouse e-billing overview. Follow the link below to register:...
Why Behavioral Health Matters
Carisk Partners Roundtable Series: Answering the Unmet Need in Workers’ Compensation
Cutting edge technologies drive data analysis to help improve patient outcomes in high risk workers' compensation delayed recovery cases. In this installment of the Carisk Partners roundtable discussion, CEO Joe Berardo, Jr., VP Clinical Strategy Alana Letourneau, MD,...
Federal Pain Management ‘Best Practices’ Support the Carisk Biopsychosocial Model of Care, Patient-Centered Care and Safer Opioid Stewardship
The federal Inter-Agency Task Force's release of its guidelines for Pain Management Best Practices, based on its mission to identify gaps in or inconsistencies between best practices for acute and chronic pain management, makes important preliminary recommendations. •...