Health Care Reform and Workers' Compensation
Evidence from Massachusetts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4961007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin Todd Bronchetti (0000-0002-3542-9347, Erin Todd Bronchetti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Swarthmore College), Melissa P Mcinerney (Melissa P. McInerney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Tufts University), Melissa Mcinerney (0000-0002-3064-8313, Swarthmore College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 388-418 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019793919891425 |
| OpenAlex | W2991933653 |
| ISBN | 9793919891425 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
The authors provide evidence of important spillover effects of comprehensive health care reform on workers' compensation (WC) that are likely to reduce WC costs. Using data on more than 20 million emergency room (ER) discharges in Massachusetts and three comparison states, they find that Massachusetts health care reform caused a 6.2 to 8.2% decrease in the per capita number of ER discharges billed to WC. The authors document heterogeneity in the impacts of the reform, shedding light on the mechanisms generating the overall decline in ER discharges billed to WC. Results indicate a larger decrease in WC claiming for weekday admissions than for weekend admissions and for harder-to-verify musculoskeletal discharges than for wounds. The decline in WC discharges is driven both by injured workers increasingly seeking care outside of the ER and by changes in the propensity to bill WC for a given ER discharge
Business · Compensation (psychology) · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Emergency department · Environmental health · Health care · Health care reform · Per capita · Spillover effect · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Nursing · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare · Psychology · Health Policy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |