A new study by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) found that Wisconsin’s medical payments per workers’ compensation claim...
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As states institute opioid policies to address the opioid epidemic, a new study has found considerable decreases in the prevalence...

A new study has found that state reforms to control the costs of prescription drugs by targeting reimbursements for physicians...

From 10 to 18 percent of injured workers never reach “substantial return to work,” according to new research by the...
Adequacy of income benefits is one of the long-standing concerns about the performance of workers’ compensation systems. However, there is...

There is a wide variation in the percentage of claims with worker attorneys involvement across state workers’ compensation systems, according...
Income benefits paid to Indiana’s injured workers through workers’ compensation claims rose nearly 5 percent between 2014 and 2015, a...
The average total cost of a workers’ compensation claim in Illinois has dropped by 6.4 percent since 2010, but the...

After decades of managing costs for employers, it’s time for workers’ compensation professionals and public policymakers to turn their attention...
Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana changed little from 2013 to 2014, a sharp contrast to the increases...