Pandemic driven increases to provider vacancies have increased reliance on nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Pandemic driven increases to provider vacancies have increased reliance on nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
High-cost claims are defined as the top 5% of medical payments within 36 months of injury.
Behavioral health services represented 8% of total medical payments.
Dermatologicals made up the largest share of drug payments, with NSAIDs coming in second.
A total of 14 different reports examine workers’ comp system performance across 17 states from 2017-2022.
A new WCRI report utilizes data from 68,850 workers from 2017-2021.
New insights into how economic and demographic changes have influenced the workers’ comp system.
The likelihood of long COVID, claims costs, and claim duration all increased with the severity of acute COVID-19.
Extended physical medicine was 5-9 times as common in claims with multiple providers.
Data insights on medical payments for 18 state workers’ comp systems.
