This 20th edition of CompScope™ Medical Benchmarks for Pennsylvania can help policymakers and other stakeholders in the workers’ compensation system identify current cost drivers and emerging trends in payments, prices, and utilization of medical services among nonhospital and hospital providers.

It shows how medical payments per claim and their cost components in Pennsylvania compared with 17 other states and how key metrics have changed from 2012 to 2017. In some cases, we used a longer time frame to supply historical context for key metrics.

We analyzed claims with experience through 2018 for injuries up to and including 2017. We also added information from other Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) studies to provide a more complete picture of the system in Pennsylvania.

CompScope™ Medical Benchmarks for Pennsylvania, 20th Edition. William Monnin-Browder. October 2019. WC-19-39.