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California comp law expected to integrate employee health care.(News)
Business Insurance, May, 2004 by Ceniceros, Roberto
Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS California's newly adopted workers compensation reform law will help merge medical treatment for injuries and illnesses whether or not they are job-related, employers and vendors predict. Provisions in the law also will boost the use of managed care practices and spur more medical providers to compete for workers compensation business, they add.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the law April 19. One provision allows employers to indefinitely direct injured workers' medical care, from a current limit of 30 days, if they establish workers compensation medical provider networks beginning Jan. 1. For years, many California employers have contracted for workers comp medical network services, doing so independently or through...
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