Medical costs in workers' compensation insurance.

Abstract:

:We examine whether patients covered by workers' compensation insurance, which covers the cost of medical care for injured workers without cost sharing and with relatively little oversight, are charged more for treatment or receive more services than patients covered by traditional insurance. Our findings indicate that workers compensation recipients are charged more for treatment. This difference persists in individual services--workers' compensation recipients are charged more per X-ray and per examination than our patients. We consider different explanations and argue that price discrimination probably plays a role.

journal_name

J Health Econ

authors

Baker LC,Krueger AB

doi

10.1016/0167-6296(95)00020-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-12-01 00:00:00

pages

531-49

issue

5

eissn

0167-6296

issn

1879-1646

pii

0167629695000208

journal_volume

14

pub_type

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