Lower prices for services and fewer patient visits combined to gave Massachusetts the lowest medical payments per lost-time claim of 18 states studied, according to a summary of major findings from the Workers Compensation Research Institute’s CompScope Medical Benchmarks report highlighted in a press release Tuesday.
According to the report, Massachusetts medical costs average $6,536 per claim with seven or more days of lost time, measured 12 months after injury in 2017. Average medical costs were $9,840 per lost-time claim, measured 36 months after maturity.
Massachusetts had th...
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