Mastering Workers' Comp Costs Now Out as E-Book

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Jun 9, 2014) - Your Ultimate Guide to Mastering Workers' Comp Costs: Reduce Costs 20% to 50% is now available as an e-book -- both as the full comprehensive guidebook/training manual and as a 20-page e-booklet that summarizes each chapter as a single page.

It's the #1 training manual that covers how to assess your workers' compensation program, design the most cost-impacting strategy, roll out comprehensive changes to your organization, and monitor and manage the program going forward.

Published by Amaxx Risk Solutions and Advisen, the manual provides detailed steps on how to develop a workers' compensation cost-containment program proven to cut costs 20 percent to 50 percent. Author Rebecca Shafer, attorney and risk consultant, has worked with organizations of all types to reduce workers comp costs using strategies and techniques described in the guidebook.

The Comprehensive version covers pre-loss planning and post-loss implementation. The step-by-step training guide shows how any employer can control workers' comp costs with tighter administration and improved return-to-work efforts, steering them toward best practice strategies. Dozens of cost-reduction techniques are covered along with details for implementation.

The chapters include Cost Containment Fundamentals, Training and Building Commitment, Injury Management Best Practices Roles and Responsibilities, Reporting the Claim, Post-Injury Response Procedure, Communication with Employees, Working with Your Insurance Adjusters or Third-Party Administrators, Safety and Loss Control, Wellness Programs, Return to Work and Transitional Duty, Indemnity Cost Containment Methods, Directing Medical Care, Medical Cost Containment, Fighting Fraud and Abuse, Rehabilitating the Injured Employee, Managing Prescription Drug Use and Abuse, Claims Resolution and Settlements, Federal Employees Compensation Act. The complete Table of Contents can be viewed online.

The Comprehensive Version e-book can be ordered from LexisNexis for Kindle at: http://tinyurl.com/nuw5bjq and for Nook/iPad at: http://tinyurl.com/mwsjoqr .

The Mini-Book version for Kindle is available from Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/q7eqkc9 and for Nook from Barnes & Noble at http://tinyurl.com/pu7uo6o.

For 25 years, Amaxx (www.WCManual.com) has helped companies in all industries reduce workers' compensation costs. Companies working with Amaxx consultants have consistently cut workers' comp costs from 20% to 50%.

Advisen manages business information and market data for the commercial insurance industry and maintains critical risk analytics and timesaving workflow tools for over 530 industry-leading firms and is the technology partner of Amaxx Risk Solutions. Advisen (www.advisen.com) is headquartered in New York.