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Analyzing Workers' Compensation Claims and Payments Made Using Data from a Large Insurance Provider.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:All states in the USA have established Workers' Compensation (WC) insurance systems/programs. WC systems address key occupational safety and health concerns. This effort uses data from a large insurance provider for the years 2011-2018 to provide estimates for WC payments, stratified by the claim severity, i.e., medical only, and indemnity. METHODS:Besides providing descriptive statistics, we used generalized estimating equations to analyze the association between the key injury characteristics (nature, source, and body part injured) and total WC payments made. We also provide the overall cost burden for the former. RESULTS:Out of the total 151,959 closed claims, 83% were medical only. The mean overall WC payment per claim for the claims that resulted in a payment was $1477 (SD: $7221). Adjusted models showed that mean payments vary by claim severity. For example, among medical only claims, the mean payment was the highest for amputations ($3849; CI: $1396, $10,608), and among disability and death related claims, ruptures cost the most ($14,285; $7772, $26,255). With frequencies taken into account, the overall cost burden was however the highest for strains. CONCLUSIONS:Workplace interventions should prioritize both the costs of claims on average and the frequency.

SUBMITTER: Baidwan NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7579155 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Analyzing Workers' Compensation Claims and Payments Made Using Data from a Large Insurance Provider.

Baidwan Navneet Kaur NK   Carroll Nathan W NW   Ozaydin Bunyamin B   Puro Neeraj N  

International journal of environmental research and public health 20200930 19


<h4>Background</h4>All states in the USA have established Workers' Compensation (WC) insurance systems/programs. WC systems address key occupational safety and health concerns. This effort uses data from a large insurance provider for the years 2011-2018 to provide estimates for WC payments, stratified by the claim severity, i.e., medical only, and indemnity.<h4>Methods</h4>Besides providing descriptive statistics, we used generalized estimating equations to analyze the association between the k  ...[more]

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