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.
- COVID-19 in the California Workers’ Compensation System: A Study of COVID-19 Claims and Presumptions Under Senate Bill 1159, RAND, 2021.
- Evaluation of California Senate Bill 863 Medical Care Reforms, RAND, 2020
- Issue Brief Title: Evaluation of the Supplemental Job Displacement Benefit (SJDB) Program Available to Workers with Permanent Disability in the California Workers’ Compensation System - October 2018
- Medical Care Provided to California's Injured Workers: Monitoring System Performance Using Administrative Data - by Barbara O. Wynn, Andrew W. Mulcahy, Harry H. Liu, Rosalie Malsberger, Edward N. Okeke, RAND, 2018
- Report on Evaluation of the Return-to-Work Fund in California's Workers' Compensation System: Performance to Date and Options for Modification - Michael S. Dworsky, Denise D. Quigley, Stephanie L. Rennane, Madeline B. Doyle, RAND, 2018
- Qualified Medical Evaluators: Updating Trends in Evaluations, Availability, and Equity - October 2017
- California Safety Officer Workers' Compensation Cancer Presumption - Impact of AB 1035 (using 420 weeks and signed into law) - Bickmore, September 2014
- Update on IMR and IBR, DWC Medical Unit - August 2014
- Identifying Permanently Disabled Workers with Disproportionate Earnings Losses for Supplemental Payments - RAND, February 2014
- Formulating a Copy Services Fee Schedule, Berkeley Research Group - October 2013
- Impact of the Adoption of AMA-based Permanent Disability Rating Schedule in California
- Use of Compound Drugs, Medical Foods, and Co-Packs in California’s Workers’ Compensation Program: An Overview of the Issues - RAND, January 2011
- 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
Separate Appendices document - RAND/UCLA Quality-of-Care Measures for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Tools for Assessing Quality of Care and Appropriateness of Surgery - RAND, 2011
- If Your Employer is Illegally Uninsured: How to Apply for Workers’ Compensation Benefits - June 2011 (Spanish Version)
- Workers' Compensation Reform and Return to Work: The California Experience, RAND, 2011 Full Document
- Working Safer or Just Working Longer? The Impact of an Aging Workforce on Occupational Injury and Illness Costs, February 2011
- Evaluating the QME Process: Is it Equitable and Efficient? September 2010
- Study of Benefit Notices and Recommendations, July 2010
- The Frequency, Severity, and Economic Consequences of Musculoskeletal Injuries to Firefighters in California, RAND, 2010
- Review of Disability Evaluation Delays and Supplemental QME Reports, June 2010
- California's Volatile Workers' Compensation Insurance Market: Problems and Recommendations for Change, RAND, December 2009
- Report on Self Insurance Groups, December 2009
- Regulatory Actions that Could Reduce Unnecessary Medical Expenses Under California's Workers' Compensation Program, RAND, 2009
- Hospital Emergency Department Services Furnished Under California's Workers' Compensation Program, RAND, 2009
- Facility Services for Ambulatory Surgery, RAND, 2009
- Inpatient Hospital Services: An Update on Services Provided Under California's Workers' Compensation Program Report, RAND 2009
- The Impact of Occupational Injury and Illness on Pricing an Integrated Disability Benefit, October 2008
- Background Paper on Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund April 2007
- Draft CHSWC response to community concerns regarding DWC workers' compensation audits February 2007
- Evaluating Medical Treatment Guideline Sets for Injured Workers in California, RAND, 2005
- Workers' Compensation Court Management and Judicial Function Study, 2003
- Workers' Compensation Medical Payment Systems: A Proposal for Simplification and Administrative Efficiency, 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
- 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 (No Longer Available on Live Site)
- 1998-99 annual report: Projects and studies section (No Longer Available on Live Site)
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