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Medical benefit costs in Canadian workers' compensation programs: a comparative perspective.

S Pozzebon1, T Thomason

  • 1Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal.

Benefits Quarterly
|December 9, 1992
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Medical benefit costs in Canadian and US workers' compensation programs are linked to the healthcare and program structures in each country. Understanding these institutional environments is key to analyzing cost trends.

Area of Science:

  • Health Economics
  • Comparative Policy Analysis
  • Workers' Compensation Systems

Background:

  • Medical benefit costs in workers' compensation programs have risen in both Canada and the United States.
  • The institutional frameworks governing healthcare and workers' compensation differ between the two countries.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between institutional environments and rising medical benefit costs in Canadian and US workers' compensation.
  • To compare the healthcare and workers' compensation systems of Canada and the United States in relation to cost drivers.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of healthcare and workers' compensation policies in Canada and the US.
  • Examination of cost trends in medical benefits within these systems.

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Main Results:

  • The study found a correlation between the specific institutional settings of healthcare and workers' compensation and the observed increases in medical benefit costs.
  • Differences in system structures appear to influence cost escalation patterns.

Conclusions:

  • The institutional environment is a significant factor influencing medical benefit cost trends in workers' compensation.
  • Policy and structural variations between Canadian and US systems are relevant to understanding cost dynamics.