Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation (CHSWC)

Workers' Compensation Administration/System

This section includes studies that identify many aspects of the workers' compensation system that ultimately determine and deliver benefits, such as electronic injury reports and medical billing, court efficiency, administrative evaluations of the workers' compensation programs such as the audit unit and uninsured employers fund program, and other changes that impact affect employer costs and employee benefits.

• Impact of the Adoption of AMA-based Permanent Disability Rating Schedule in California version
  • Stakeholder public comments about PD rating schedule report version
• Use of Compound Drugs, Medical Foods, and Co-Packs in California’s Workers’ Compensation Program: An Overview of the Issues, RAND, January 2011 version
• Medical Care Provided Under California’s Workers’ Compensation Program: Effects of the Reforms and Additional Opportunities to Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Care, RAND, 2011 version
  Separate Appendices document version
• RAND/UCLA Quality-of-Care Measures for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Tools for Assessing Quality of Care and Appropriateness of Surgery, RAND, 2011
  • Summary
  • Full Report
  • Appendices
• Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS) Information Technology Needs Assessment Report, June 2011 version
  Stakeholder public comments about EAMS Needs Assessment Report version
• If Your Employer is Illegally Uninsured: How to Apply for Workers’ Compensation Benefits, June 2011 English version Spanish version
• Workers' Compensation Reform and Return to Work: The California Experience, RAND, 2011 Full Document version Summary only version
• Working Safer or Just Working Longer? The Impact of an Aging Workforce on Occupational Injury and Illness Costs, February 2011 version
• Liens Report, January 2011 version
  Stakeholder public comments about Lien Report, Volume 1 version and Volume 2 version
• Memo on System Monitoring, January 2011 version
• Evaluating the QME Process: Is it Equitable and Efficient? September 2010 version
• Study of Benefit Notices and Recommendations, July 2010 version
• The Frequency, Severity, and Economic Consequences of Musculoskeletal Injuries to Firefighters in California, RAND, 2010 version
• Review of Disability Evaluation Delays and Supplemental QME Reports, June 2010 version
• California's Volatile Workers' Compensation Insurance Market: Problems and Recommendations for Change, RAND, December 2009 version
• Report on Self Insurance Groups, December 2009 version
• Regulatory Actions that Could Reduce Unnecessary Medical Expenses Under California's Workers' Compensation Program, RAND, 2009 version
• Hospital Emergency Department Services Furnished Under California's Workers' Compensation Program, RAND, 2009 version
• Facility Services for Ambulatory Surgery, RAND, 2009 version
• Inpatient Hospital Services: An Update on Services Provided Under California's Workers' Compensation Program Report, RAND version - Summary version
• Background Paper on Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund, version version April 2007
• Evaluating Medical Treatment Guideline Sets for Injured Workers in California, RAND, 2005” version
• Costs and Benefits of Implementing Electronic Deposit for Unemployment and Disability Benefits in the State of California, November 2004
• Workers' Compensation Court Management and Judicial Function Study, 2003 version version
• Workers' Compensation Medical Payment Systems: A Proposal for Simplification and Administrative Efficiency, 2003
• Adopting Medicare Fee Schedules: Considerations for the California Workers' Compensation Program RAND, 2003
• Memorandum - update on Labor Code Section 132a and employer termination of health insurance coverage: California Supreme Court decision in state of California Dept. of Rehabilitation v. WCAB (Lauher), July 2003 version version
• Preliminary evidence on the implementation of 'Baseball Arbitration', November 1999

• CHSWC report on the workers' compensation audit function, 1998
• Executive summary - CHSWC study of the division of workers' compensation audit function, - Project description December 1998

• 1998-99 annual report: Projects and studies section

• 1997-98 annual report: Program oversight section

• 1998-99 annual report: Projects and studies section

• Selected Indicators in Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation: 2011 Report Card for California, December 2011 version
• Selected Indicators in Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation: 2010 Report Card for California, December 2010 version
• Selected Indicators in Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation: 2009 Report Card for California, December 2009 version
• Selected indicators in workers' compensation: A report card for Californians, December 2008 version version
• Selected indicators in workers' compensation: A report card for Californians, December 2007 version version
• Selected indicators in workers' compensation: A report card for Californians, December 2006 version version
• Selected indicators in workers' compensation: A report card for Californians, December 2005 version version

Revised December 13, 2012