Report
Access to Medical Treatment for Injured Workers in California: Year 1 Annual Report
Sep 27, 2018
Year 3 Annual Report
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The California workers' compensation program provides medical care and indemnity benefits to workers who suffer on-the-job injuries or illnesses. California law mandates an annual assessment of whether injured workers in the state have adequate access to quality care, and the RAND Corporation was asked to help answer that question over three years.
The key objective of this Year 3 report is to describe access to medical care among injured workers in California using medical billing data from Version 2.0 of the Workers' Compensation Information System. Overall, the estimates using such data suggest stability or slight improvements in most measures analyzed when compared with the Year 2 estimates.
Chapter One
Background and Key Objectives
Chapter Two
Analytic Approach
Chapter Three
Results
Chapter Four
Discussion and Summary
Appendix
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The research described in this report was sponsored by the California Department of Industrial Relations and conducted by the Justice Policy Program within RAND Social and Economic Well-Being.
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