Rand: Stable Access, Decreasing Provider Participation a 'Puzzle'

Rand said in a new report that contradictory findings about provider participation trends and access to care in California's workers' compensation system "pose somewhat of a puzzle." "We found flat or slightly declining participation for individual providers overall in workers’ compensation, which included declines in participation among key provider types (physicians, chiropractors and psychologists) and physician specialties (primary care, orthopedic surgeons and other surgeons) with substantial workers’ compensation participation," Rand sai...