The military's TRICARE Reserve Select program offers reservists the option of purchasing health insurance through the military on terms that compare favorably with typical employer benefits, but the program does not appear to be effectively targeting those most likely to be uninsured.
Testimony presented before the California State Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on May 9, 2012.
When enacting, implementing, and evaluating health care reform, policymakers should consider potential spillover effects on workers' compensation insurance. The experience of Massachusetts's heath care reform suggests that reform may reduce medical costs.
Though consistency in applying disability assessment criteria is intended, it is not easily achieved in practice. For many SSDI applicants, whether they are allowed or denied benefits depends upon the examiner to which their application is assigned.
The first evaluation of the California Injury and Illness Prevention Program found that it reduces workplace injuries, but only at businesses that had been cited for not addressing the regulation's more-specific safety mandates. Having inspectors conduct more in-depth assessments and linking the violations and injuries to the program would have more impact.
This book examines changes to California's workers' compensation affecting medical care provided to injured workers and identifies areas in which more changes could improve quality and efficiency of care.
Offers two rigorously developed tools for assessing the quality of care received by patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and for determining whether surgery is necessary for individual patients.
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the effects of several large changes to the workers' compensation system on return to work rates for California's injured workers.
This book describes the effect of work-related musculoskeletal disorders on firefighters' earnings and employment, disability ratings, and employment outcomes since California's reforms to workers' compensation and medical delivery systems.
This paper assesses the options, challenges, and benefits of adopting pay-for-performance incentives for physician services in California's workers' compensation program.
Examines the performance of Pennsylvania's workers' compensation system, the major policy issues the system faces, and options that the commonwealth might consider to address these issues.
These proceedings are the product of a May 2003 colloquium on the workers' compensation medical benefit delivery system, with a focus on the access, cost, and quality issues facing the system and mechanisms to improve its quality and efficiency.
Identifying the medical treatment guidelines that determine the appropriateness of treatment for California workers' compensation recipients.
Explores issues arising from the proposed linking of the California workers' compensation health care fee schedule to Medicare fee schedules
The authors focus on California's permanent disability rating schedule, which is at the center of legislative debates on how to reduce the costs of the state's workers' compensation system.
Analyzes the causes of delays, high cost, and inconsistency in the California workers' compensation courts.
Analyzes the causes of delays, high cost, and inconsistency in the California workers' compensation courts.
Testimony presented to the California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on January 15, 2003.
This report examines the consequences of a disabling workplace injury for workers at 68 private self-insured employers in California from 1991 through 1995.
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