| Exhibit 6.1. Workers' Compensation Health Initiative. | |
| First Round Grantees | |
| Lead Agency: | State of Maine Bureau of Insurance |
| Project Name: | Twenty-Four-Hour Coverage Pilot Project |
| Grant Amount: | $250,000 |
| This project involved the development of a 24-hour coverage pilot project in Maine, based on enabling legislation enacted in 1995. | |
| Lead Agency: | New York State Department of Civil Service |
| Project Name: | OneCard Rx |
| Grant Amount: | $253,282 |
| The New York State Department of Civil Service developed and implemented an integrated workers' compensation and health insurance prescription drug program for New York State employees. | |
| Lead Agency: | Institute for Research and Education, HealthSystem Minnesota |
| Project Name: | Minnesota Health Partnership: Coordinated Health Care and Disability Management |
| Grant Amount: | $254,270 |
| The Minnesota Health Partnership, a diverse community coalition, created a coordinated health care delivery model which blends traditional employee health care and workers' compensation medical coverage, along with disability management protocols for all patients. | |
| Lead Agency: | Mid-America Coalition on Health Care |
| Project Name: | Cooperative Employer-Provider Medical Management & Early Return to Work |
| Grant Amount: | $270,439 |
| This community-based coalition in Kansas City, Missouri, developed new communications tools for improving care, including a standardized workability reporting form, along with employer and provider protocols for care. | |
| Lead Agency: | American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Project Name: | Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines for Medical & Disability Management |
| Grant Amount: | $121,560 |
| This grant supported the initial dissemination and adoption of the occupational practice guidelines recently developed by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. | |
| Lead Agency: | Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) |
| Project Name: | UNITE Occupational Health/Workers' Compensation Program |
| Grant Amount: | $263,138 |
| UNITE devised new methods for ensuring union members had access to medical care for work-related disorders without regard to claims denial by insurance carriers or legal adjudication of the claim. | |
| Lead Agency: | The Electrical Employers Self-Insurance Safety Plan (EESISP) |
| Project Name: | The Comprehensive and Organized Managed Care Program (COMP) |
| Grant Amount: | $374,094 |
| This project involved the development of a negotiated union-management health plan that provides 24-hour health care and coordinated disability benefits for electrical workers in the New York City area. | |
| Lead Agency: | UCLA Center for Health Policy Research |
| Project Name: | Evaluation of California's 24-Hour Pilot Program |
| Grant Amount: | $458,994 |
| Research was conducted to evaluate California's 24-hour coverage pilot programs adopted under 1993 authorizing legislation. | |
| Lead Agency: | University of Washington |
| Project Name: | Washington State Workers' Compensation Managed Care Pilot Evaluation |
| Grant Amount: | $252,768 |
| This research study evaluated the Washington State Managed Care Pilot Project which featured experience rated, capitated premiums and occupational medicine networks for workers' compensation. | |
| Lead Agency: | Stratus Health |
| Project Name: | Minnesota Mandatory Treatment Parameters Evaluation |
| Grant Amount: | $386,709 |
| The study examined provider compliance with Minnesota's treatment parameters and their effect on costs, quality of care, functional and social outcomes, satisfaction, and return to work. | |