Most Valuable Information for REGULATORS:

Click on these links for:

1. The tools developed to measure the quality of care being provided by workers' compensation managed care organizations;
2. General information about the primary areas of concern in the provision of medical treatment to injured and sick workers;
3. A general  orientation  to the issues involved in Workers' Compensation Medical Care;
4. Identified barriers of access to health care;
5. The impact of cost containment strategies;
6. Examples of treatment guidelines and how their utilization and compliance can be measured;
7. Information about setting up a state Technical Resource Center (TRC) for quality medical care;
8. Information identifying challenges to the creation of a statewide workers' compensation data base to measure the quality of medical care;
9. Access to the survey being used by multiple jurisdictions to measure the experience of workers in the wc system;
10. A listing of resources used by the California agency to study the information on quality medical care for ill and injured workers;
11. A listing of all publications that came out of the Workers' Compensation Health Initiative