This 21st edition of the CompScope™ Benchmarks study for Wisconsin can help policymakers and other stakeholders in the system identify current cost drivers and emerging trends in payments for indemnity benefits, medical care, and benefit delivery expenses. This study compares the performance of workers’ compensation systems in 18 states, focusing on total claim costs, indemnity benefits, overall medical payments, disability duration, benefit delivery expenses, timeliness of benefit payments to workers, and other metrics. The study also examines how these metrics have changed, mainly from 2014 to 2019, for claims at various maturities with experience as of March 2020. A longer time frame may be used to supply historical context for certain metrics. Findings from other Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) studies are included to provide a comprehensive picture of the system.

Note that the results we report include experience on claims through March 2020, at the very beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The study, therefore, provides a pre-COVID-19 baseline for evaluating the impact of the virus on workers’ compensation claims.

CompScope™ Benchmarks for Wisconsin, 21st Edition. Evelina Radeva. April 2021. WC-21-16.

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