Despite having the lowest fee schedule of 40 states, Florida's medical payments per claim are near the average of eight large states.
While prices for many non-hospital services are the lowest among the eight study states, Florida's hospitals receive the highest prices among these states for similar services, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). h
The reference work, The Anatomy of Workers' Compensation Medical Costs and Utilization: Trends and Interstate Comparisons, 1996-1999, identifies where workers' compensation medical dollars go and how costs an...
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