The Use of Relative Value Scales for Provider Reimbursement in State Workers Compensation Programs

Appendix 1: Detailed State Interviews Concerning Their Use of Relative Value Scales for Workers Compensation

Workers’ Compensation: Coverage, Benefits, and Costs, 1979

Workers’ compensation is the oldest social insurance program in the United States. The first law was passed in 1908 to provide cash and medical benefits for workrelated disability and death. This program now consists of 50 independent State operations and several Federal programs. The experience under workers’ compensation is of considerable importance to the Social Security Administration beca...

Medicare Compensation Rates for Hand and Shoulder/ Elbow Surgery by Operative Time: A Comparative Analysis

Background: There is a high demand for shoulder/elbow experience among hand-fellowship trainees due to theperception that this exposure will improve their professional “marketability” in a subspecialty they perceive as havinghigher compensation.Methods: Using Medicare data, we investigated the most common surgeries from these fields and determinedwhich have the highest c...

Workers' compensation: 1980-84 benchmark revisions.

The first workers' compensation program was introduced 80 years ago. Its purpose was to compensate occupationally injured workers and their families for lost wages and medical expenses from job-related injury, regardless of fault. Today, each of the State and Federal programs that provides coverage to more than 86 percent of the work force uses a combination of private insurance, State or Feder...

Workers' compensation, Social Security Disability Insurance, and the offset: a fact sheet.

This article offers a brief summary of the workers' compensation and Social Security Disability Insurance programs. Information highlighted includes the differences between the two programs' types and terms of coverage. It compares the differing patterns in workers' compensation and Social Security disability benefits as a percentage of wages over the past few decades and considers the potentia...