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Weaving a life
Published in Patricia A. Murphy, A Career and Life Planning Guide for Women Survivors:, 2020
Workers’ compensation benefits usually consist of payments for medical treatment, lawyer’s fees, and perhaps vocational rehabilitation benefits and services. These benefits vary from state to state according to the laws of each state. In the late 80s, state governments launched an assault on the vocational rehabilitation benefit in the name of workers’ compensation reform. Therefore, what the vocational rehabilitation benefit is in your state may be anybody’s guess, since this so-called reform process is continuing into the 90s. The vocational rehabilitation benefit usually consists of some support for vocational testing, vocational counseling, training expenses — tuition, uniforms, books, supplies, and tools — resume development, and job search assistance. In Nevada, injured workers were entitled to 12 months of vocational rehabilitation maximum. In California, time in a vocational rehabilitation plan was negotiated in sometimes tedious and bitter quarrels, but the rule of thumb was one year or less. New Mexico no longer has a formal vocational rehabilitation benefit. All of this is changing as I write. Once again, I caution you to be very clear about your options before you make a decision as to the use of this benefit in your state, or the decision to fight to get it.
Institutions in the dock and alternatives to the criminal process
Published in Mélinée Kazarian, Criminalising Medical Malpractice, 2020
In France, on the other hand, victims may get civil compensation in either civil or criminal proceedings, but they may also access compensation through a compensation scheme called ONIAM. This scheme aims to provide victims with both rapid compensation for harm resulting from medical accidents and also direct access to their medical records and a free expert report.130 To receive compensation from ONIAM, the patient or the family of a deceased patient must prove that the patient was harmed as a result of medical treatment on or after 5 September 2001 and that the harm caused the patient to suffer permanent incapacity of over 24%.131 Compensation may be obtained when the patient has suffered either negligent or non-negligent medical treatment, diagnosis or prevention, and this also includes hospital-acquired infections.132 If treatment was negligent, compensation is paid by liability insurers, and where there is no fault, compensation is provided by the state fund managed by ONIAM, limiting the ‘financial burden on the state’ whilst ensuring ‘accountability for fault of medical services providers’.133 This may also have an effect on deterrence and healthcare safety, as there is evidence that ‘the introduction of the scheme has led to an overall increase in the number of claims for compensation made in France’.134 However, ‘the lack of openness remains a problem despite the introduction’ of the scheme in France.135
The Demography of women Workers
Published in Vilma R. Hunt, Kathleen Lucas-Wallace, Jeanne M. Manson, Work and the Health of Women, 2020
Vilma R. Hunt, Kathleen Lucas-Wallace, Jeanne M. Manson
Worker’s Compensation provides cash benefits, medical care and rehabilitation services for workers who suffer work-related injuries and diseases. To be eligible for benefits, normally an employee must experience a personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment. All 50 state laws plus five other jurisdictions and two Federal programs provide benefits for workers with occupational diseases although not all cover every form of occupational disease. The percentage of employees covered by State or Federal worker’s compensation programs in 1972 was about 85% of all employees.
Salary and student loan debt for oncology social workers: Findings from the oncology social work competencies, opportunities, roles and expertise (CORE) survey
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2023
Ting Guan, Brad Zebrack, Shirley Otis-Green, Grace DesJardins
The median salaries for all OSWs working full-time occurred at the $60,001–$70,000 per year. This median salary is higher than the median salary of social workers ($51,760) and similar to the registered nurses and middle school teachers reported by the U.S. Department of Labor. However, it is much lower than that of other oncology professionals. For example, a nationwide study of oncology nurse practitioners and physician assistants reported that the average annual compensation was between $113,000 and $115,000.21 Although, as the nation’s largest provider of social care services, social workers are an essential workforce, OSWs’ relatively lower salaries compared with these other helping professions may become a barrier to cultivating a sufficiently large OSW workforce.1 Additionally, the social work profession is predominately female, and thus potentially subject to “unaddressed gender bias in compensation.”1
Pain and mental health symptom patterns and treatment trajectories following road trauma: a registry-based cohort study
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Sherry Huang, Joanna F. Dipnall, Belinda J. Gabbe, Melita J. Giummarra
In Victoria, treatment and rehabilitation following RTI is provided through public and private health services and is predominantly funded through the State Government-based road injury compensation scheme the Transport Accident Commission (TAC), or through the federally funded Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. The TAC is a no-fault compensation scheme for people who have sustained road-trauma injuries in Victoria, Australia. People are eligible for a compensation claim if their injury event involved a motorized vehicle, train, or tram in the state of Victoria, regardless of who was at fault. The TAC claim may cover the cost of healthcare needs including treatments for pain and mental health symptoms, rehabilitation, vocational support, income support, and lump sum payments for permanent impairment [28]. The TAC does not cover costs arising from injuries or conditions that existed before the RTI, or if the injured person is entitled to compensation through another insurance scheme. Administrative compensation system data from the TAC have previously been used to examine healthcare use following RTI [23,28], and rates and geographic variations in treatment for pain and mental health conditions [6,15,29]. Compensation datasets are a unique resource that provide information on the types of healthcare use received over time, the frequency of treatments, and costs of health services used, allowing for in-depth exploration of treatment patterns.
The effect of healthcare policy signals on patients’ perceived value, trust and intention to use services offered by a healthcare provider
Published in Hospital Practice, 2022
Many healthcare systems worldwide are struggling with rising costs and uneven quality [1]. The predominant reimbursement model for medical service expenditures is the fee-for-service (FFS) model, in which a service provider is reimbursed by the payers, e.g., insurer for the cost of treating its insured patient. Consequently, an FFS payment system may result in an inappropriate number of clinical visits and the misuse of rehabilitation services, as well as the over-prescription of drugs [2]. Among the attempts to contain costs without degrading service quality, capitation was first made popular by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) during the late 1980s and early 1990s [3,4]. Capitation is a population-based payment scheme. Compensation is calculated in advance, per patient within a defined population, and is adjusted for age, gender, and other variables.