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Workers' compensation medical fee schedules vary substantially among the states, and not because health care providers are incurring substantially different costs, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.

"By providing important benchmarks for the design of fee schedules in workers' compensation, this report helps to ground the debates about fee schedules in analytic facts, rather than anecdotes or partisan claims," said Richard Victor, executive director of WCRI. "This is especially important as the development or update of a fee schedu