WCRI: States See Big Impacts From Hospital Fee Schedules

Indiana’s implementation of a workers’ comp hospital fee schedule in 2014 led to double-digit decreases in hospital payments per inpatient episode that helped drive a reduction in medical payments per claim, according to an analysis by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. “Medical payments per claim decreased nearly 10% from 2014 to 2015,” WCRI said in a CompScope report released in October. “That was the first decrease in Indiana medical payments per claim in over a decade and reflected the introduction of the hospital fee schedule, effective Ju...