Jeff Williams

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY Mental health has never been more visible as a public conversation. In workers’ compensation, the question is no longer whether behavioral health matters; the data settled that years ago. The question now is whether the system is equipped to act on what it already knows. October 10 is World Mental Health […]

In her latest Leaders Speak column for WorkCompWire, Dr. Miranda Kofeldt, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Ascellus, looks at a timing problem that rarely shows up on a claims dashboard. Clinically, a traumatic stress reaction tends to either resolve or begin to meet criteria for PTSD within about 30 days. Nationally, the typical wait for a first mental health appointment often runs longer than that. And in workers’ compensation, the pool of clinicians who understand how a claim works is smaller still.

OUTCOMES & PROOF · MID-YEAR INTELLIGENCE Halfway through the year, the data points in one direction: behavioral health factors are among the most reliable predictors of claim duration and cost. Here is what we are seeing in the field, and what it means for how claims teams allocate attention in the second half of 2026. […]