Incidence of workers compensation indemnity claims across socio-demographic and job characteristics

Du, Jian; Leigh, James

doi:10.1002/ajim.20985

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“…We did not find that visits by Hispanics were more likely to be non‐WC visits than those by non‐Hispanics. Given the literature (Du and Leigh ; Friedman, Ruestow, and Forst ), this ran counter to our prior expectations. Because we analyzed race and ethnicity separately, visits by Hispanics were compared to those by all non‐Hispanics, including both whites and blacks, which could have biased the analysis toward the null.…”

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The Proportion of Work‐Related Emergency Department Visits Not Expected to Be Paid by Workers' Compensation: Implications for Occupational Health Surveillance, Research, Policy, and Health Equity

Groenewold

Baron

2013

Health Services Research

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Objective. To examine trends in the proportion of work-related emergency department visits not expected to be paid by workers' compensation during [2003][2004][2005][2006], and to identify demographic and clinical correlates of such visits. Data Source. A total of 3,881 work-related emergency department visit records drawn from the 2003-2006 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys. Study Design. Secondary, cross-sectional analyses of work-related emergency department visit data were performed. Odds ratios and 95 percent confidence intervals were modeled using logistic regression. Principal Findings. A substantial and increasing proportion of work-related emergency department visits in the United States were not expected to be paid by workers' compensation. Private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and workers themselves were expected to pay for 40 percent of the work-related emergency department visits with this percentage increasing annually. Work-related visits by blacks, in the South, to forprofit hospitals and for work-related illnesses were all more likely not to be paid by workers' compensation. Conclusions. Emergency department-based surveillance and research that determine work-relatedness on the basis of expected payment by workers' compensation systematically underestimate the occurrence of occupational illness and injury. This has important methodological and policy implications.

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The Proportion of Work‐Related Emergency Department Visits Not Expected to Be Paid by Workers' Compensation: Implications for Occupational Health Surveillance, Research, Policy, and Health Equity

Groenewold

Baron

2013

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“…A number of lifestyle and social demographic factors have been linked with low back pain in a variety of studies . Body mass index has been linked to low back pain with obese people in particular at increased risk .…”

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“…A study by Du and Leigh assessed the incidence of workers' compensation indemnity claims across sociodemographic and job characteristics. They looked at data spanning from 1997 through 2005 and found that the odds ratio for men and African Americans were relatively large and strongly significant predictors of claims; significance for Hispanics was moderate and confounded by education.…”

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Epidemiology of Low Back Pain in Adults

Manchikanti

Singh²,

Falco

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“…WC claims also provide unique public health data key to identifying and preventing occupational hazards and WRII. Finally, WC claims are some of the few forms of feedback to individual employers enabling them to identify and correct workplace hazards (Herbert et al 1997;Burgel et al 2004;Boden and Ozonoff 2008;Dembe 2010;Du and Leigh 2011;Leigh and Marcin 2012;Utterback et al 2012).…”

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Barriers to Use of Workers' Compensation for Patient Care at Massachusetts Community Health Centers

Azaroff

Davis

Naparstek

et al. 2013

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Objectives. To examine barriers community health centers (CHCs) face in using workers' compensation insurance (WC). Data Sources/Study Setting. Leadership of CHCs in Massachusetts. Study Design. We used purposeful snowball sampling of CHC leaders for in-depth exploration of reimbursement policies and practices, experiences with WC, and decisions about using WC. We quantified the prevalence of perceived barriers to using WC through a mail survey of all CHCs in Massachusetts. Data Collection/Extraction Methods. Emergent coding was used to elaborate themes and processes related to use of WC. Numbers and percentages of survey responses were calculated. Principal Findings. Few CHCs formally discourage use of WC, but underutilization emerged as a major issue: "We see an awful lot of work-related injury, and I would say that most of it doesn't go through workers' comp." Barriers include lack of familiarity with WC, uncertainty about work-relatedness, and reliance on patients to identify work-relatedness of their conditions. Reimbursement delays and denials lead patients and CHCs to absorb costs of services. Conclusion. Follow-up studies should fully characterize barriers to CHC use of WC and experiences in other states to guide system changes in CHCs and WC agencies. Education should target CHC staff and workers about WC.

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Incidence of workers compensation indemnity claims across socio-demographic and job characteristics

Abstract: Few studies use nationally representative longitudinal data to consider which demographic and job characteristics predict reporting workers compensation indemnity cases. This study did and tested some common hypotheses about predictors.

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

The Proportion of Work‐Related Emergency Department Visits Not Expected to Be Paid by Workers' Compensation: Implications for Occupational Health Surveillance, Research, Policy, and Health Equity

The Proportion of Work‐Related Emergency Department Visits Not Expected to Be Paid by Workers' Compensation: Implications for Occupational Health Surveillance, Research, Policy, and Health Equity

Epidemiology of Low Back Pain in Adults

Barriers to Use of Workers' Compensation for Patient Care at Massachusetts Community Health Centers

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