WCRI: Medical Costs Per Claim Rise in Most, but Not All, States

Virginia, Iowa and Wisconsin had the fastest rates of growth in medical costs per workers’ comp claim among 18 states examined in a series of reports released Thursday. Medical payments per claim decreased from 2011 to 2016 in only four of the study states: North Carolina, California, Illinois and Arkansas, according to the CompScope medical benchmark reports produced by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The change in medical cost per claim was based on claims with more than seven days of lost time and 12 months of experience. And for many states, medical payments per c...