WCRI: Lack of Fee Schedule Increases Medical Prices More Than 50%

States without workers’ compensation medical fee schedules paid the highest prices for medical services last year among a group of 28 states examined in a study released Wednesday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. As of mid-2015, Wisconsin was paying the highest prices for medical services, at nearly 2.5 times the 28-state median. Indiana, New Jersey and Missouri placed second, third and fourth in the WCRI ranking. None of those states had a medical fee schedule at the time. Two other non-fee-schedule states, Virginia and Iowa, had the sixth- and seventh-highest...