Can workers' compensation health costs be controlled by managed care?
Baldwin, M.L.; Johnson, W.G.
Managed Care Interface 15(2): 67-72
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 1096-5645 PMID: 11875965 Document Number: 543157
Three recent studies provide, for the first time, the information needed to evaluate objectively the cost savings, utilization, worker satisfaction, and productivity differences of network versus nonnetwork care in workers' compensation cases. The authors review these studies and analyze their findings.
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