Save the Date! Self-Insurance Colloquium 2025 (CORRECTION)

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Self-Insurance

Self-Insurance Colloquium 2025
SAVE THE DATE

Thursday, November 13, 2025
8:30 AM - 1:15 PM

The Department of Labor & Industries and the Washington Self-Insurers Association are hosting a virtual webinar for self-insured employers, claims administrators, and healthcare and vocational services providers.

Registration link: Zoom Webinar
https://lni-wa-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hdhpCBzLSD2TSpA2I5RbVQ#/
registration

  • Each person must register individually to attend.
  • After registration, please do not share your personal invitation link.

Agenda/Schedule and Summaries & Learning Outcomes are enclosed below.

Topics Include:

  • Bending the Quality Curve: An Overview of Strategies L&I Uses to Ensure the Quality of Care in Workers’ Compensation
    • Provider Management
    • Provider Support & Outreach
    • Centers of Occupational Health and Education (COHE)
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Guideline Update Health Care Innovations
  • Lumbar Fusion / Spinal Surgery Update
  • Structured Intensive Multidisciplinary (Pain) Program Update
  • Stump the Docs - Panel Discussion and Q&A
    • Occupational Disease, Causation, and Chemically Related Illness

Continuing Education Credits:

The following professional development credentials will be requested:

  • Certified Claims Administrator – 3 credits
    • This program will be submitted to the Self-Insurance Curriculum Advisory Committee for approval to provide 3 contact hours of continuing education credits in claims management -- to increase the participant’s knowledge or skill regarding administration of workers’ compensation claims under RCW Title 51.
  • Certified Disability Management Specialist (CDMS) – 3 credits
    • This program will be submitted to The Commission for Case Manager Certification for approval to provide CDMS board certified Disability management specialists with 3 contact hour(s).
  • Certificates will be emailed after the Post Evaluation Survey has been completed and returned*.

Please note: To earn the CE Credits, you must:

  • Attend all presentations in their entirety
  • *Complete and return the Post Evaluation Survey by: December 12, 2025

For more information contact:
Department of Labor and Industries
Phone: 360.791.8566
Email: SIColloquium@LNI.WA.GOV