Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features a new webinar coming up this Thursday from WCRI on payments for hospital and professional services for injured workers across states and the impact of reforms, using two of their studies: the Medical Price Index for Workers’ Comp, which focuses only on the prices paid for medical care under state workers’ comp systems, and the Hospital Outpatient Cost Index for Workers’ Comp, which indexes costs for a group of fairly similar surgical episodes across the most common outpatient surgeries in workers’ comp.
The webinar will cover issues including the implications of different types of fee regulations on prices paid for professional and hospital services and how different states compared in terms of professional prices and hospital outpatient payments, and their growth over time.
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