OWCP Interagency MeetingJune 2, 2015

Douglas Fitzgerald

Director,

Division of Federal Employees’ Compensation

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Agenda

OWCP Interagency Meeting, June 2, 2015

Welcome, Douglas Fitzgerald

Opening Remarks, Leonard J. Howie, III

Agency Performance, Gary Steinberg

ICD-10/Debit Cards, Jay Mariani

General Reminders, Tara Jones

Contracts and Q&A, Julia Tritz

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Leonard J. Howie, III

Director,

Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs

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Gary Steinberg

Deputy Director,

Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs

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Federal Safety and Workers’ Compensation Initiatives

SHARE was initially announced to run from FY04 through FY07. In 2006 the Initiative was extended to run through FY09, with a revision of goal-setting methodology to reward agencies with consistent performance and challenge those with poor performance.

The POWER Initiative ran from FY11 to FY14. For the final two years of the initiative, target-setting methodology was revised to set more challenging targets for return to work and timely filing of injury/illness notices and wage loss claims. An additional goal was also added to track federal agencies’ access to electronic filing of claims.

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FY2015 Agency Performance(Through 2nd Q)
| All Government(less USPS)                 | FY14 Year End Result | FY15 ResultYTD |
|-------------------------------------------|----------------------|----------------|
| Goal 4: Timely Filing of Claims           | 88.76%               | 88.32%         |
| Goal 5: Timely Filing of Wage Loss Claims | 82.86%               | 84.59%         |
| Goal 6: Lost Production Days              | 31.8                 | 29.0           |
| Goal 7: Return to Work Rate               | 90.73%               | 89.75%         |

OWCP-tracked Goals 4 through 7

CA-1/2 Timeliness FY2015 through 2nd Q

Percent of Injury/Illness Notices Timely Filed

Our performance, at the end of the second quarter of FY14 was 90.53 so we are performing a little bit behind this point last year.

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CA-7 Timeliness FY2015 through 2nd Q

Percent of Wage Loss Claims Timely Filed

We continue to steadily improve in the area of  timely filing of wage loss notices.

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Lost Production Days FY2015 through 2nd Q

Lost Production Days per 100 Employees

We continue to improve in the area of LPD as well.

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Return to Work FY2015 through 2nd Q

Percent of Disabled Employees Returned to Work with Federal Agency

While 89.75% seems close to the 90.73% achieved in FY14, this figure is deceiving.  The last two quarters of the year are historically slow in growth and, by the end of the second quarter of FY14, our performance was at 90.28% so we are not on pace to outperform last year.

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Jay Mariani

Chief,

Branch of Fiscal Operations

Division of Federal Employees’ Compensation

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DFEC Conversion to ICD-10

DFEC has completed coding the iFECS application to accept ICD-10 codes.  Testing will start within the next month to prepare for “go live” implementation on October 1, 2015.

The Data Extract Files have been modified to accept the new ICD-10 codes.  File layout information was e-mailed out to the Agencies on May 28th.

DFEC is forming an IT working group to discuss the upcoming ICD-10 changes and testing opportunities.  E-mail will be sent out shortly to offer inclusion in the working group.

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Direct Express Debit Card

Prepaid debit card that allows Federal benefit recipients to receive payments electronically without having a bank account

Low-cost account that recipients can use to withdrawal cash from an ATM or use at POS locations

Comerica Bank manages the program as Treasury's Financial Agent and the enrollments handled by the Go Direct call center in Dallas 

For all questions or enrollment inquiries contact Go Direct at  http://www.godirect.gov or via phone at     (855) 224-0213

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Tara Jones

Chief,

Branch of Technical Assistance

Division of Federal Employees’ Compensation

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Julia Tritz

Deputy Director,

Division of Federal Employees’ Compensation

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