The California Workers’ Compensation Institute reported that cases of long COVID account for a disproportionate share of costs among claims for COVID-19.
“Only one out of every 21 California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claims from accident years (AY) 2020-2022 involved medical treatment beyond 90 days from the injury date, but that small number of ‘long COVID’ cases consumed 82.1% of the treatment payments on COVID claims and 73.7% of all COVID claim payments,” CWCI said.
CWCI said its study, which reviewed 126,397 insured and self-insured COV...
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