• Evaluate workers' compensation systems and identify "best practices"
• Identify leverage points and quantify opportunities for system improvement
• Measure outcomes experienced by injured workers
• Provide comprehensive reference books to help understand key system features
• Measure the impact of reform

The research in this program is funded by the annual membership fees. To see a list of members and associate members, click here.

CompScope™, WCRI's multistate benchmarking program measures and benchmarks the performance of a growing number of state workers' compensation systems. In coming years, we expect to include the 20-25 largest state systems. This program provides annually the opportunity both to examine the changes in performance of individual state systems and to make meaningful interstate comparisons. CompScope™ helps stakeholders and public officials to better manage change and avoid the historic pattern of crisis-reform-crisis that has frequently characterized workers' compensation in the past.

Using special methods, the Institute has created information that is comparable across states, across data sources and across time. With meaningful comparisons, system stakeholders, public officials and policymakers can monitor their systems on a regular basis and make important interstate comparisons. By identifying incremental changes in system performance - trends that may signal either improvement or possible deterioration in system performance - goals for system performance can be set, improvements accomplished and crises avoided.

The CompScope™ program, of strategic importance to the workers' compensation community, provides annually multistate reports that compare states with each other on key aspects of system performance using meaningful comparisons.

The CompScope™ program is funded by employers, insurers, state funds, state governments, rating organizations and a labor organization seeking to help achieve a more stable, equitable workers' compensation system. To achieve the ambitious goals outlined above, continued broad support and expanded funding are needed. To see a list of the diverse organizations that provide funding for this important new program, click here.

Funding for this program comes from organizations committed to evaluating innovations in disability and medical management to help policymakers and others understand what innovations actually work. Research priorities are established by a Program Advisory Board comprised of representatives from all organizations that provide special funding to support this program. For a list of funders, click here.