New WCRI Publications
Why Surgeon
Owners of Ambulatory Surgical Centers Do More Surgery Than
Non-Owners
The last two
decades have seen substantial growth in the use of ambulatory
surgical centers (ASCs) and the number of physicians who have
ownership interests in these centers. Studies have found that
surgeon owners of ASCs perform more surgeries than surgeons who are
not owners. This report identifies and quantifies the major factors
why.
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Hospital Outpatient Cost Index for
Workers' Compensation
As
legislators slash state budgets due to rising healthcare costs, a
new WCRI study,
Hospital
Outpatient Cost Index for Workers’ Compensation,
provides a tool to indentify and better understand hospital costs.
This study
includes 17 large states that represent 60 percent of the workers’
compensation benefits paid in the U.S. and covers a seven-year
period from 2003 to 2009.
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CompScope™ Benchmarks, 12th Edition
CompScope™ benchmarks provide the most meaningful comparisons
currently available for more than 60 system performance measures for
sixteen large states (California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin).
Fourteen of the
16 states in the 12th edition have individual state
reports. To read the abstract, executive summary, or to order a
report, click on the state below.
Early Impact of the 2007 Reforms
in New York
Major reforms were enacted in New York in 2007. Key regulatory
changes increased maximum statutory benefits, limited the number of
weeks of permanent partial disability, and developed a fee schedule
for pharmaceuticals.
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Factors Influencing Return to Work
for Injured Workers: Lessons from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
Against a backdrop of high unemployment, some injured workers may
face even greater challenges in returning to work, leading to
potential increases in the duration of disability, according to a
new WCRI study Factors Influencing Return to Work for Injured
Workers: Lessons from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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John Jones Scholarship
Applications
are now being accepted for the WCRI John Jones Scholar in
Workers’ Compensation Research. The recipient of this award will
receive a grant of $10,000. The application deadline is June 1,
2012.
Available to
university faculty, graduate students, researchers in government
or research organizations, and researchers in private companies
or labor organizations, the award may be used for new research
projects, to expand the scope current research, for doctoral
dissertation support, or for a Scholar-in-Residence at WCRI.
Eligible
disciplines: economics, law, public health, public policy,
statistics or other social sciences. No experience with workers’
compensation research is necessary.
Topics of
particular interest include medical treatment guidelines, return
to work, benefit adequacy and equity, reducing litigation,
evaluating the design of permanent partial disability systems,
and use and overuse of narcotics.
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