Determinants of Escalating Costs in Low Risk Workers’ Compensation Claims
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Determinants of escalating costs in low risk workers' compensation claims.
OBJECTIVE To identify and quantify attributes that lead to unanticipated cost escalation in workers' compensation claims. METHODS We constructed four claim categories: low initial reserve/low cost, migrated catastrophic (low initial reserve/high cost), high initial reserve/low cost, and catastrophic (high initial reserve/high cost). To assess the attributes associated with the increased cost ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1076-2752
DOI: 10.1097/jom.0b013e318095a471