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Find Solutions & Strategies October 14, 2013 |
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 Home Health Care in the Context of a Psychiatric Injury |
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 Home Health Care in the Context of a Psychiatric Injury. On September 30, 2013, a panel of three commissioners with the WCAB denied a request to reconsider a WCJ's decision denying reimbursement for home health care. The facts in this case are quite interesting. On June 5, 2009, applicant suffered a partial amputation to his fourth and fifth fingers. The injury to applicant's fourth and fifth fingers as well as an injury to his psyche was resolved via Stipulated Award on February 28, 2013. These stipulations specifically provided applicant with 53% permanent disability along with a provision for further medical treatment. Read more.
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 Issue 6 (May 2013) of John Burton's Workers' Compensation Resources Research Report contains an in depth analysis of national and state data for employers' workers' comp costs. Among its findings is the large discrepancy that exists in statistics for 25 states examined by both the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Oregon Dept. of Consumer and Business Services. In John Burton's September 2013 supplement you'll find additional analysis comparing the Oregon rate ranking study and the NASI data.
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