Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features WCRI’s release of a new edition of its CompScope Medical Benchmarks set of studies that found medical payments per claim decreased more than 3% in most of the 17 study states for 2021 injuries with experience through March 2022.
WCRI noted that main driver of the change was a decrease in utilization of medical services – while stay-at-home orders and suspensions of nonemergency surgeries and procedures largely lapsed or were withdrawn over the spring and summer of 2020, pandemic-related factors continued to impact the delivery and usage of medical services.