WCRI: Drop in Medical Costs May Reflect early Impact of SB 863

California defied national trends and logged a 5% decrease in medical payments per claim during 2013 and 2014, perhaps a reflection of the impact of Senate Bill 863 reforms that slashed payments to ambulatory surgical centers and eliminated separate reimbursements for medical implants, according to the Workers Compensation Research Institute. WCRI said in a report published last week that the decrease in medical payments per claim in California compares to a median increase of 5% among states analyzed in the 15th Edition of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research group's CompScop...