Health Officials Probing Shift of Comp Costs to MassHealth

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefMassachusetts health officials are investigating allegations that the state's subsidized health insurance program and private health insurers are often picking up the medical tab for job-related injuries because workers who fear retaliation from employers avoid the workers' compensation system.The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is expected to release a report to the state Workers' Compensation Advisory Council in October or November on practices that regulators warned last May could be shifting costs from workers' compensation...