Date of Award
Spring 2005
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Public Administration (MPA)
Abstract
The California workers compensation reform bills (SB228 & SB899) passed by the legislature in 2003 and 2004 may be destructively limiting medical treatments that are critical to the health of injured law enforcement public safety employees.
As a result of increasing workers' compensation insurance premiums for businesses and workers' compensation medical costs in California, lawmakers decided to change the legal codes that regulate the systems by which injured workers receive medical treatment. Together, these two bills have created treatment guidelines that define the therapies required to cure or relieve workrelated injuries, mandated the requirement of utilization review (UR), and authorized medical provider networks (MPN) for employers. This reform legislation is causing a reduction of treatment and significant delays in delivery of needed treatment, while also altering and eliminating many rights of injured public safety employees throughout the state.
This paper evaluates the impact of these reforms on the medical treatment law enforcement public safety employees are receiving throughout the Sacramento region.
Recommended Citation
Areia, Jeanette, "Evaluating the Effects the California Workers Compensation Reforms (SB228 & SB899) Has Had on the Medical Treatment Injured Law Enforcement Public Safety Employees Receive in the Sacramento Region" (2005). EMPA Capstones. 20.
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/capstones/20