CompScope™ Benchmarks, 22nd Edition

By Rebecca (Rui) Yang, Carol A. Telles, Evelina Radeva, Bogdan Savych, Karen Rothkin, Roman Dolinschi, William Monnin-Browder

April 28, 2022 Related Topics: Annual State CompScope™ Benchmarks

These comprehensive reference reports measure the performance of 18 state workers’ compensation systems, how they compare with each other, and how they have changed over time.

The reports are designed to help policymakers and others benchmark state system performance or a company’s workers’ compensation program. The benchmarks also provide an excellent baseline for tracking the effectiveness of policy changes and identifying important trends, including the impact of COVID-19.

The reports examine how income benefits, overall medical payments, costs, use of benefits, duration of temporary disability, litigiousness, benefit delivery expenses, timeliness of payments, and other metrics of system performance have changed from 2015 through 2020, with claims experience through 2021.

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, Georgia, Iowa, and Tennessee.

Note that the results we report reflect experience on claims through March 2021, including non-COVID-19 claims only from the early pandemic period (March–September 2020). The study, therefore, provides a look at how the pandemic impacted non-COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims in the early months of the pandemic.

CompScope™ Benchmarks, 22nd Edition. Roman Dolinschi, William Monnin-Browder, Evelina Radeva, Karen Rothkin, Bogdan Savych, Carol A. Telles, and Rebecca Yang. April 2022. WC-22-01 to WC-22-14.

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Research Questions:

  • How does the performance of a state workers’ compensation system compare with that of other states?
  • How has the performance of a state system changed over time?
  • What impact did COVID-19 have on state workers' compensation systems?

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