Paduda: Are Work Comp Medical Costs Really Dropping?

The recent announcement at NCCI AIS that medical costs for lost-time claims dropped for the first time ever was a shocker. Talks with experts and industry pros after Kathy Antonello’s talk led to much head scratching and wondering. The likeliest contributor? California. My mistake — California is NOT an NCCI state. I was under the mistaken impression that, while California is not an NCCI state, it does share data with NCCI and therefore was included in the data used for this research. WorkCompCentral opened with the news...