CWCI Posts Updates to Interactive Applications
Last week CWCI posted updates to six of our online, interactive data applications, which now feature the most current data from the Institute’s IRIS database (data on claims valued as of December 31, 2024), and in the case of our Claim Characteristics and Trends App, WCIS data on claims from AY 2018 through May 2025, as reported to the DWC as of June 18, 2025.
These six apps are available to CWCI members who log on to www.cwci.org with their username and password. Once logged in, users can access the apps from the drop-down menu under the Research tab at the top of our home page. Because it’s based on WCIS data, the Claim Characteristics and Trends App is publicly available and is listed separately, while the five other apps and the Inpatient Hospital Utilization App, which was updated in January, are only available to CWCI members, and are all listed together under Interactive Research Applications. As a reminder, brief descriptions of each of the applications are provided below:
The Claim Characteristics and Trends App, CWCI’s systemwide app with data on insured and self-insured claims reported to the DWC’s Workers’ Compensation Information System (WCIS). Featuring data from AY 2018 through May 2025, the app shows overall trends and claim distributions by region, industry, and injury characteristics and allows users to track the number of reported and projected claims by year, by quarter and year, or by month and year. Filters can be used to view results for combinations of insured and self-insured claims, by claim type, industry, region, injury description, reporting timeliness, and COVID-19 status.
The Loss Development App allows users to examine industrywide trends for average paid indemnity, average paid medical, and combined medical and indemnity payments for claims from AY 2011 through AY 2024, at nine development periods ranging from 3 to 72 months, with results available for all claims or just indemnity claims. The application can be used to calculate the percentage changes in average payments for each metric across accident years; obtain data for a region or an industry; and view regional differences displayed on heat maps.
The Regional Scorecard App offers new data on AY 2011-2024 claims valued as of December 31, 2024. Users can view regional and statewide data on 19 metrics, compare results from 7 regions, and identify regional and statewide trends. The app shows average medical, indemnity and other payments (with breakdowns of average TD and PD, ALAE), as well as data on demographics, claim status (percent closed, percent with an attorney, percent with TD payments, and percent with PD payments), and claim volume. Users may also use filters to view results by injury year, by industry, and for insured and self-insured claims or just insured claims.
The Medical Services App contains medical service data for claims with 2016-2024 initial treatment dates, valued as of 12/31/24. It allows users to monitor utilization and payment trends for 13 medical service categories at six levels of development ranging from 3 to 36 months, and across key claim characteristics. Results can be broken out for all diagnostic categories or any of 17 specific diagnostic categories; for open or closed claims (or both); for all claims or just indemnity claims; for claims with and without attorneys (or both); for insured and self-insured claims or for just insured claims; for surgical and non-surgical claims (or both); by level of opioid use; by industry; and by region.
The Prescription Drug App can help identify trends and compare industrywide data on prescriptions filled between January 2010 and December 2024. Claim level data allows users to examine prescription drug utilization by accident year at 6 levels of development, and service-level data allows users to look at drugs dispensed during the 15-year period ending in December 2024. Dashboards allow users to build custom views of statewide or regional pharmaceutical data for all claims or indemnity claims, and global selection settings and drop down menus allow them to see results at different levels of development; for open and/or closed claims; for specific drug groups; for generic and/or brand drugs; by opioid drug name; by industry; and for specific accident or service years. As users choose from a menu of specific metrics, the tables and charts automatically display the results, with regional data provided in color-coded heat maps.
The MTUS Formulary Interactive App, a handy reference app that shows the breakdown of medications within each version of the MTUS Prescription Drug Formulary by formulary category: Exempt, Non-Exempt, Not Listed; Special Fill, and Perioperative drugs. Users can identify which drugs were added to or dropped from the formulary and when; easily find where approximately 100 therapeutic drug groups and hundreds of specific drugs have been categorized; track changes in prescription and payment distributions among the formulary categories beginning with pre-formulary years (CY 2016 and 2017) and extending into the post-formulary years beginning with CY 2018; find the average wholesale price (AWP) and the average amount paid for specific drugs (by drug ingredient) over time; and view lists of the top 20 drugs by formulary category, broken out either by calendar year or by formulary version.
How to Access the Apps. CWCI member company employees can log on to www.cwci.org with their user name and password (if they don’t have an account, they can select “Your Account” at the top of the home page, click “Add Me as a Member User” from the pull-down menu, complete the form, then use that info to log in). Once logged on, they can use the dropdown menu under the Research tab at the top of the home page and click the Claim Characteristics and Trends App to access that application, or the Interactive Research Applications, for any of the other five apps they want to open.
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