Workers' Compensation

Report

Issues and Performance in the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation System

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.

Research Brief

Workers' Compensation in Pennsylvania: How is the System Performing? How Should It Be Reformed?

This research brief examines the performance of the Pennsylvania workers' compensation system in terms of costs and effectiveness and suggests possible reforms for the future.

Journal Article

Selection of Workers' Compensation Treatment Guidelines: California Experience

Workers' compensation systems increasingly use mandatory treatment guidelines to guide clinicians and for utilization management. This article describes steps for selecting such guidelines, which require careful planning and a well-defined process.

Report

Research Colloquium on Workers’ Compensation Medical Benefit Delivery and Return to Work

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.

Report

Adopting Medicare Fee Schedules: Considerations for the California Workers' Compensation Program

Explores issues arising from the proposed linking of the California workers' compensation health care fee schedule to Medicare fee schedules

Report

Evaluation of California’s Permanent Disability Rating Schedule: Interim Report

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.

Report

Improving Dispute Resolution for California's Injured Workers: Executive Summary

Analyzes the causes of delays, high cost, and inconsistency in the California workers' compensation courts.

Report

Improving Dispute Resolution for California's Injured Workers

Analyzes the causes of delays, high cost, and inconsistency in the California workers' compensation courts.

Testimony

Inflation in Hospital Charges: Implications for the California Workers’ Compensation Program

Testimony presented to the California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on January 15, 2003.

Report

An Evaluation of New Mexico Workers' Compensation Permanent Partial Disability and Return to Work

Examines post-injury employment, earnings losses, and the adequacy and equity of benefits for New Mexicans with permanent partial disabilities, and compares the results to workers injured in four other states.

Report

Permanent Disability at Private, Self-Insured Firms: A Study of Earnings Loss, Replacement, and Return to Work for Workers' Compensation Claimants

This report examines the consequences of a disabling workplace injury for workers at 68 private self-insured employers in California from 1991 through 1995.

Research Brief

Workers' Compensation Outcomes Differ Little at Self-Insured and Insured Firms: Raising Questions About Adequacy and Equity of Benefits

Workers who file claims for permanent partial disabilities from job-related accidents at private self-insured firms in California recover less than half of their injury-related wage losses during the first five years after injury.

Journal Article

Managed Care and the Workers' Compensation Bargain

Summarizes the October 1999 issue of Medical Care. Thie issue reports the results of an evaluation of a workers' compensation managed-care pilot in Washington State.

Report

Compensating Permanent Workplace Injuries: A Study of the California System

This report evaluates the workers' compensation system by examining its efficiency and the adequacy and equity of its benefits, and suggests system reforms.

Report

Findings and Recommendations on California's Permanent Partial Disability System: Executive Summary

This is the executive summary of a comprehensive report that evaluates the workers' compensation system by examining its efficiency and the adequacy and equity of its benefits, and suggests system reforms.

People

Michael Dworsky

People

Nicholas M. Pace

People

Denise D. Quigley

People

Bethany Saunders-Medina

People

Stephanie Rennane