Industrial Injury Hospitalizations Billed to Payers Other Than Workers' Compensation: Characteristics and Trends by State.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe characteristics of industrial injury hospitalizations, and to test the hypothesis that industrial injuries were increasingly billed to non-workers' compensation (WC) payers over time.

Data sources

Hospitalization data for 1998-2009 from State Inpatient Databases, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Study design

Retrospective secondary analyses described the distribution of payer, age, gender, race/ethnicity, and injury severity for injuries identified using industrial place of occurrence codes. Logistic regression models estimated trends in expected payer.

Principal findings

There was a significant increase over time in the odds of an industrial injury not being billed to WC in Californi

SUBMITTER: Sears JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5346499 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature