Will the Affordable Care Act flood the health care system with previously uninsured patients who now have coverage, making it more difficult for injured workers to get prompt medical care?
That’s the question behind a new report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI doesn’t yet have an answer to the question, but it has compiled baseline data from workers’ compensation claims from mid-2010 through 2012 to use as a benchmark against future years’ data.
But the study provides a detailed profile of how quickly after an injury a worker receives certain...
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