There is no cost impact for employers who already report claims that involve the rendering of medical treatment. “First Aid” means any one-time treatment, and any follow up visit for observation of minor scratches, cuts, burns, splinters, or other minor industrial injury, which do not ordinarily require medical care.Īny employer who fails to comply with the submission of a Doctor’s First Report for first aid claims may be assessed a civil penalty between $50 and $200. All inforce workers’ compensation policyholders will be affected by this new law beginning January 1, 2017, regardless of the policy’s effective date. This now includes those involving first aid treatment, even if the insurer did not make the payment. Effective January 1, 2017, all employers MUST report the cost of all claims for which any medical care is provided and medical costs are incurred. The Insurance Commissioner recently approved amendments to clarify the reporting requirements for small medical only or first aid claims.
Because words matter.It’s important for business owners to make sure they’re aware of the latest changes happening when it comes to Worker’s Compensation insurance. Get trained in Mental Health First Aid today to start thinking critically about the way you talk about mental health and substance use challenges.
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The course provides people with a greater understanding of the appropriate language to use and how to use it when beginning conversations about mental health and substance use challenges. One of the goals of Mental Health First Aid is to promote empowerment and strength when discussing your own or someone else’s mental health or substance use condition. Because mental health challenges and substance use conditions are so historically connected, we must be intentional with our language every step of the way when talking about and encountering people living with these illnesses.Ĭonversations and reports about mental health and substance use challenges must be reframed to eliminate negative language reinforcing stigmatization, discrimination and isolation. In 2014, SAMHSA released a National Survey on Drug Use and Health, that reported approximately 7.9 million adults in the United States had a co-occurring disorder, meaning both a mental health and a substance use condition. We must speak, write and think in a way that acknowledges the human being first, rather than their condition or disease.
Addiction is no longer the primary, defining characteristic of an individual, but one of several aspects of the whole person. This terminology often reduces the person into a predetermined box of perceptions and judgments that foster discrimination.īy placing the person first, the person is emphasized. When we use terminology like “addict,” we may unknowingly begin to objectify the person and strip away their individuality by minimizing the totality of who they are. Calling someone an addict not only reduces them to just that, it also perpetuates stigmatizing perceptions that influence the efficacy of our social and public health policies for addressing them. And how we think about things impacts our attitudes and approaches to addressing them. The language we use when referring to people speaks volumes about how we think about them. This kind of person-first language is key. The 2017 AP Stylebook encourages phrasing like “they were addicted” or “people with addictions.” By Mental Health First Aid USA on July 5, 2017ĭid you know that the word “addict” cannot be found in the most recent edition of the standard AP Stylebook? That’s because earlier this month, the Associated Press took a groundbreaking step in destigmatizing the disease of addiction – they removed the word “addict” as a noun.
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