The National Council on Compensation Insurance said new research shows that the cost of workers' compensation medical claims is being driven upward by an increase in surgical procedures.
According to NCCI findings, the increase in the share of claims with surgery accounted for about one quarter of the overall increase in treatments per claim.
NCCI noted that from 1996-1997 to 2001-2002 medical severity grew at more than three times the rate of medical price inflation–70 percent versus 21 percent.
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