Medical Cost Containment Expenses almost Doubled from 2006-2013

By Ben MillerReporterAs the yearly bill for medical care for injured workers in California has risen, so has the amount of money payers spend to keep those bills low. During the past six years, data from the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau show that medical cost containment expenses have almost doubled since 2006.The total expenses for medical cost containment were $446 million in California in 2013, a 7.73% increase from 2012, according to the WCIRB's report on losses and expenses for the past calendar year. The costs represented about 8.58% of the $5.2 billion...