The Workers' Compensation Research Institute issues a report showing substantial variation across states in medical costs for treating workers' comp cases.
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A report from Rising Medical looks at trends in workers' compensation claims.
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Express Scripts issues a drug trend report for workers' compensation insurance.
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Express Scripts annual workers' compensation drug trend report shows a 1.9% increase in spending in 2014, the result of a 7% increase in unit price mitigated by a 5.4% decline in utilization.
http://lab.express-scripts.com/insights/workers-compensation/workers-compensation-rx-spend-increased-1-9-in-2014The Workers' Compensation Research Institute has published its annual report and research review on the state of the industry.
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The Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety finds that the top workers' comp conditions include overexertion, falls and roadway accidents, with the top 5 conditions accounting for 65% of all workers' comp spending and the top 10 for 84%.
http://www.libertymutualgroup.com/omapps/ContentServer?pagename=LMGroup/Views/LMG&ft=2&fid=1138356633468&ln=enThe National Academy of Social Insurance releases its 17th annual report on workers' compensation, covering data through 2012, and confirming the ongoing growth in medical costs for this coverage.
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Workers' Compensation increasingly pays as much for health care services as it does for loss of income. One technique to control those costs is fee schedules, but a new report…
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I will be traveling the next two weeks so our posts will be less frequent. Todays focuses on workers' compensation and reviews an annual report put out by the Workers'…
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The National Academy of Social Insurance tracks workers' compensation trends, among other items, and has issued a report which confirms that medical costs are rising faster than indemnity costs.
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Another Saturday, another Potpourri, featuring the acquisition of a hospital medical necessity company, Americans' online health usage, analysis of prescriptions, California workers' compensation, home monitoring of elderly parents, remote psychiatric…
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Workers' compensation health cost trends may provide some insight into underlying medical cost issues across the system and vice versa. An NCCI report looks at factors driving trends in medical…
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Another week, another potpourri, this time with items on workers' compensation drug spending, benefit consulting firm mergers, hospital readmissions, geographic variation in spending and use of mobile vans to deliver…
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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