Paduda: Workers' Comp Hospital Costs — Implications for Payers

The Workers' Compensation Research Institute's report on variations in-hospital outpatient costs is yet more evidence of the wide and seemingly nonsensical variations in work comp regulations, fees, payments, and practices among and between states. Among the findings: an eightfold variation in costs from the lowest-cost state, New York, to the highest, Alaska. Shockingly, fee schedule states’ costs are a LOT lower than non-fee schedule state costs. Costs in percentage-of-charge fee schedule states were much higher than ...