- If you have a $10,000 primary threshold and you have a claim that ends up costing $6,000, the amount used to compute your X-Mod would be $5,750.
- If you have a $10,000 primary threshold and you have a claim that ends up costing $17,000, the amount used for calculating your X-Mod would be $9,750.
- If you have a claim that’s valued at $250 or less, the claim will still show on your experience rating worksheet, but it will not be used at all when calculating your X-Mod.
Does this affect your current X-Mod?
Yes. Any claim incurred against policies incepting during the experience period for your 2019 experience modification, which includes 2015, 2016 and 2017 policy years, will be used in the X-Mod computation at $250 less than its reported value. Claims costing $250 or less will be shown on worksheets, but will not be used in X-Mod calculation.Reporting first aid claims is required
Workers’ comp regulations require that all claims that cost some amount of money to treat must be reported to your workers’ comp carrier, which in turn must report to the Rating Bureau so that it can accurately keep workers’ comp records on employers that are experience rated. The rules have already been on the books for years, but the problem of non-reporting became too great, so the Rating Bureau has stepped up to encourage employers to follow the rules. And in this case, it can’t work against you.Related Posts
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