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Altering California's workers' comp system / Reforms cut costs 60% in just 2 years but a loophole may be delaying necessary treatments for patients

Altering the workers' comp system / Reforms cut costs 60% in just 2 years but a loophole may be delaying necessary treatments for patients
By Tom Abate
Has workers' compensation reform gone too far? This state-mandated workplace insurance program once gave doctors a free hand to provide injured workers any treatment at any price. The result: waste, fraud and abuse. In 2003 and 2004, a series of...

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