# WC Med Cost Containment Efforts Fade 

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Efforts to cut workers' compensation system costs through managed care and other initiatives have slowed nationwide, and two states have dropped managed care mandates, a research organization reported.

The findings were released by the non-profit Workers' Compensation Research Institute in Cambridge, Mass. in its seventh edition of "Managed Care and Medical Cost Containment in Workers' Compensation: A National Inventory, 2001-2002."

According to the report's lead author, Ramona Tanabe, states are focusing on evaluating the effects of past medical cost containment moves "before moving forward with a new round of activities."

She said there is also more interest in studying the impact that medical cost containment initiatives have on "the quality of care received by injured workers.

Sources:
- National Underwriter (http://www.nationalunderwriter.com/pandc/hotnews/ArcPC.asp?article=1_30_02_16_4005.xml)