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Article: Insurers push for wider WC managed care use. (workers' compensation)
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- National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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- March 18, 1996
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The American Insurance Association is working to defeat anti-managed care initiatives and enact additional managed care authority for workers' compensation if it is needed, one AIA official said here.
The idea of managed care is widely accepted in our society and many people currently receive their health care within a managed care/HMO type of program, said Eric Oxfeld, assistant general Counsel at the Washington-based AIA.
"Even though managed care in workers' compensation is a relatively new phenomenon, the evidence is that it is working," Mr. Oxfeld noted during the recent annual conference of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers' ...