Most Valuable Information for HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS:

Click on these links for:

1. Information on your responsibilities under the Massachusetts workers' compensation system;
2. A general  orientation to the public policy issues involved in Workers' Compensation Health Care;
3. Information on the URAC (American Accreditation HealthCare Commission) performance measurement set for workers' compensation managed care organizations;
4. Information on the  studies measuring physicians compliance with treatment standards;
5. Results of attempts to integrate the treatment of occupational and non-occupational conditions;
6. Forms used by physicians to communicate health and work status to employees and employers. Note that the Mid-America form is designed to help obtain many of the measures in the "Benchmarks" tool for employers at the same time;
7. Results of the efforts by New York state to combine prescription services to state employees for both occupational and non-occupational conditions;
8. Results of the efforts of the UNITE labor union to solve the access problems of New York garment workers suffering repetitive motion injuries;
9. Evaluation of the 24-Hour pilot programs for the states of Maine, California and Washington;
10. All the publications resulting from the Workers' Compensation Health Initiative