Shared Functions Approach to Rehabilitation

Abstract

Workers' compensation is specialized insurance purchased by employers to provide services to injured workers or workers who acquire an occupational disease. Benefits to workers include medical care, disability compensation, and rehabilitation services. Across the nation compensation systems are experiencing tremendous difficulties, and the last few years have seen losses persistently run ahead of combined income received from premiums and investments. This article reports on a rehabilitation services delivery model developed and used by a private rehabilitation firm located in Las Vegas, Nevada.