At a time when the nation’s workers’ compensation system is facing an aging workforce and a pending widespread labor shortage,...
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Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Michigan were among the lowest of 18 state workers’ compensation systems analyzed in...
Though the number of physician dispensed prescriptions has declined considerably from just a few years ago, the workers’ compensation industry...
A new study by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) found that Wisconsin’s medical payments per workers’ compensation claim...
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...