Hospitalization, Intensive Care, Fatalities More Likely in COVID Medical Claims

While the majority of workers’ compensation claims for COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic involved a mild infection and no hospitalization, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California reports that coronavirus claims with medical payments were more likely to involve hospitalization, intensive care and fatalities. “As a result, the average medical payments per COVID-19 claim during the first six months of medical treatment [were] almost two times higher than the average medical payments per non-COVID-19 claim,” the WCIR...