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Publication Date: November 2001
Publisher: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Author(s): Gerald F. Kominski; Nadereh Pourat; Danielle Ash; Hongjian Yu
Research Area: Health; Labor
Keywords: workers compensation; health care; finance
Type: Report
Coverage: California
Abstract:
In response to rising occupational health care costs within workers’ compensation programs, states during the 1990s introduced cost containment strategies adapted from non-occupational employmentbased group health insurance plans. In particular, managed care approaches and techniques gained popularity with workers’ compensation health insurers. An early evaluation of Florida’s experience with workers’ compensation managed care suggested that this strategy could have significant potential for controlling the workers’ compensation medical costs