CompScope™ Benchmarks, 21st Edition
Channel: Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI)
Date: 2021-04-08

A new series of studies, CompScope™ Benchmarks, 21st Edition, provides in-depth analysis of costs per claim and other performance metrics across 18 state workers’ compensation systems for claims with experience through March 2020 for injuries up to and including 2019.

The CompScope™ studies can help policymakers and other stakeholders identify current cost drivers and emerging trends in a wide variety of workers’ compensation system components. The studies include experience on claims through March 2020, at the very beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, so they are a good baseline for evaluating the impact of the virus on workers’ compensation claims.

The 18 states in the study are Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. There are individual reports for every state except Arkansas, Iowa, and Tennessee. The state studies explore the time from injury to first indemnity payment, the average total cost per claim, the average payment per claim for medical care, and the average payment per claim for indemnity benefits, as well as how state results may reflect system features and processes.

For more information on these studies, visit https://www.wcrinet.org/reports/compscope-benchmarks-21st-edition.