WCRI Documents State Cost-Containment Efforts

The Workers Compensation Research Institute published a report documenting medical cost-containment strategies being used in all 50 state comp systems, the District of Columbia and by federal programs. Medical cost containment became a focus of many comp systems in the early 1990s when the percentage of benefits paid for medical care started to grow faster than other claim costs, according to the report. Most systems use fee schedules to determine payment for providers and hospitals. Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia are the only syst...