By Stephen Sullivan, Managing Editor
Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features more research from WCRI with the release of a new edition of their CompScope Medical Benchmarks series. North Carolina is under examination in this edition, where payments for hospital outpatient services to treat injured workers stabilized following 2009 reforms which reduced the reimbursement rate for hospital outpatient services.
According to WCRI, ongoing growth in charges could however mean resumption of growth in payments, as the average charge per service for hospital outpatient care continued to grow rapidly, up 11 percent in 2010, and nearly 19 percent in 2009, which was “much faster than cost-savings estimates anticipated”.
Find out more by clicking here!