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Fernando Branco

Fernando Branco

Fernando Branco, MD, FAAPM&R is AVP, Claims and Chief Medical Officer at Midwest Employers Casualty (a Berkley Company), where he leads medical strategy for complex workers' compensation claims.

Aug 31, 2026

TaQuon GilbertMODERATOR
7:09
some examples of high-cost claims?
7:11
Yes, I think that the most obvious one that I think everybody sort of knows, but not everybody actually gets one.
7:19
is what we call catastrophic cases.
7:21
Let's say brain injury, a severe brain injury, not a simple concussion or just a bang in the head, major brain injury, an amputation, a spinal cord injury, a patient with multi-trauma, like with organs and multiple bones broken, and those you know from the start that will be expensive.
7:43
In those, you have to focus right away.
7:45
I would say immediately you need a nurse case manager because you know there's going to be a lot of coordination of care on these cases.
7:53
And if you don't want this to go from, because you know it's going to be a high-cost claim, if you don't want to go from a high-cost claim to an outrageously high-cost claim, you need to follow certain protocols.

7 MINS LATER

TaQuon GilbertMODERATOR
14:49
Are there specific characteristics that makes a claim more prone to become high cost?

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