Joe Paduda, of Managed Care Matters, reflects on CompScope™ Medical Benchmarks, 2025 Edition:

At long last we have credible research that medical costs increased post-Covid.

From 2021 to 2023, costs increased:

• 22% in Louisiana (!!)
• 5% in California with physical medicine a major contributor
• 14% in Pennsylvania, driven primarily by increases to the medical fee schedule.

Read the full article from Managed Care Matters here. 

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