Pro-Seminar 2006
Atlanta Medical Psychology
© 2005 Dr. D. B. Adams
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Inappropriate claims are a major component of the workers' compensation problem. As many as 25 percent of all filings may have some element of impropriety. There are many possible causes, including misunderstandings, honest mistakes, cost shifting from non-occupational health care, employee resentment, unscrupulous service providers, and outright fraud…The key problem has not been the amount charged per visit but the number of visits per claim…When medical services are over-utilized, employers must foot the bill, but employees suffer, too. The longer they stay out of work, the more likely they are to perceive themselves as disabled and the harder it becomes for them to re-establish the discipline of being in the workplace eight hours a day.
- Stanton Long, Esq
Psychology of
Cost Containment
…the lies that people tell…