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CWCI : Direct Written Premium Up 11.7% in 2022
06/13/2023
Job creation and rising wages drove up covered wages enough to offset a decrease in average charged rates as total direct written premium increased about 11.7 from 2021 to 2022 the California Workers Compensation Institute reported.
CWCI said in a Bulletin released Friday that total direct
Category: News
Paduda: Three Things About Work Comp Drugs
05/24/2023
account for a significant percentage of total drug spend. CWCI members can get the full report at no cost; it’s 18 for others.
Branded antidepressants tapentadolNucynta and the three antidepressants make up a
Category: Industry Insights
CWCI : Non-FDA Approved 'Kit' Becomes Major Cost Driver for Dermatological Drugs
05/24/2023
only 0.3 of work comp prescriptions for dermatologicals. However with an average cost of 4126 per prescription it accounted for 7.2 of the dollars comp payers spent on dermatologicals in 2021 CWCI said.
Xrylix is a topical medication used to treat arthritis of the knee. It is dispensed as a
Category: News
Grinberg: CWCI Reports on IMR Stats From 2022
05/23/2023
What is a pirate’s favorite part of California workers’ compensation
Category: Industry Insights
CWCI : IMR Volume Down, UR Uphold Rate Better than 90%
05/17/2023
falling to 127215 letters in 2022 the CWCI report says. This decline is associated with the implementation of the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule formulary which has reduced the number of disputes over prescription medications and the COVID-19 pandemic which led to a reduction in the
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CWCI Elects 2023 Board of Directors
03/13/2023
CopperPoint Insurance Cos.; Vernon Steiner State Compensation Insurance Fund; Eric Belk Travelers; and Martin Brady of Schools Insurance Authority.
Others elected to the CWCI board for 2023 include Ira Feurlicht AIG; Paul Ziegler Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty; Andrew Linkhart Berkshire Hathaway
Category: News
Paduda: Trigger Warning
03/02/2023
docs to prescribe it to workers’ comp patients.
The latest from CWCI shows that things have gotten worse.
Profiteers increased fenoprofen calcium’s reimbursement from 192 in 2016 to 1479 five years later.
In four years ketoprofen
Category: Industry Insights
CWCI : High-Cost Drugs Drive Spending on Anti-Inflammatories
02/28/2023
The anti-inflammatory fenoprofen calcium accounted for 0.5 of all prescriptions in 2021 but more than 8 of all drug payments that year according to a new report by the California Workers Compensation Institute.
CWCI in the first of a three-part series on low-volume high-cost drugs that
Category: News
CAAA: Stupid Bragging
01/12/2023
workers needed to be overturned. The CWCI called it “progress.”
Really
Ask those 10000-plus injured California workers how they feel about medical care denied for months.
What if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bragged that “only&rdquo
Category: Industry Insights
CWCI : Hospitalizations Drop in 2021
01/09/2023
The number of hospitalizations covered by workers' compensation fell by 5.7 in 2021 continuing a trend in which comp hospitalizations declined at a faster pace than stays covered by private medical coverage according to a new study by the California Workers Compensation Institute.
The CWCI
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