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Barriers To Use Of Workers' Compensation For Patient Care At Massachusetts Community Health Centers, Lenore Azaroff, Letitia Davis, Robert Naparstek, Dean Hashimoto, James Laing, David Wegman
Barriers To Use Of Workers' Compensation For Patient Care At Massachusetts Community Health Centers, Lenore Azaroff, Letitia Davis, Robert Naparstek, Dean Hashimoto, James Laing, David Wegman
Dean M. Hashimoto
Objectives
To examine barriers community health centers (CHCs) face in using workers' compensation insurance (WC). Data Sources/Study Setting
Leadership of CHCs in Massachusetts. Study Design
We used purposeful snowball sampling of CHC leaders for in-depth exploration of reimbursement policies and practices, experiences with WC, and decisions about using WC. We quantified the prevalence of perceived barriers to using WC through a mail survey of all CHCs in Massachusetts. Data Collection/Extraction Methods
Emergent coding was used to elaborate themes and processes related to use of WC. Numbers and percentages of survey responses were calculated. Principal Findings
Few CHCs formally discourage use …