Appendix 1: Detailed State Interviews Concerning Their Use of Relative Value Scales for Workers Compensation

The Use of Relative Value Scales for Provider Reimbursement in State Workers Compensation Programs

Phenomenological Analysis of Employees’ Turnover Experience in a Public Organization

Purpose: This study aims at investigating the experiences of employees who have left their jobs in a state-owned organization in the city of Tehran. Methodology: The sample of this study consisted of 10 members of this organization who have left it voluntarily between 2016 and 2020 and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. To analyze data, the experimental phenomenological appr...

Workers’ experiences with compensated sick leave due to musculoskeletal disorder: a qualitative study

OBJECTIVES The most common occupational disease that is compensated by Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (IACI) in Korea is musculoskeletal disease (MSD). Although complaints about the workers' compensation system have been raised by injured workers with MSD, studies that examine workers' experiences with the Korean system are rare. This paper is a qualitative study designed to examine...

The sleeper issue in health care reform: the threat to workers' compensation.

The national health care reform debate raises important issues about the effect of federal legislation restructuring health care delivery on state workers' compensation systems. Workers' compensation is the oldest and most successful no-fault insurance system in the country, providing comprehensive medical benefits as well as cash income support, rehabilitation, and burial benefits for work-rel...

Unemployment Compensation in the Reconversion Period: Recommendations by the Social Security Board

AFTER 7 MONTHS of congressional consideration of reconversion problems by five important committees, Congress has decided that the major responsibility for unemployment compensation during the reconversion period rests with the States. In making its decision the Congress was impressed by the testimony of many State administrators and governors. What is equally important is that unemployment com...