The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Friday announced a new methodology for measuring physician services utilization that produces substantially different results than its traditional measurement based on the number of medical transactions per claim.
The WCIRB said in its report, "A New Measure of Medical Service Utilization: Physician Services and the Factors Driving Change," that under its new resource-based measurement, "utilization" of physician services increased 8% from 2020 through 2025, compared with a 5% decline using the traditional measuremen...
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