Key findings
![Average Premium per $100 of Payroll by Policy Year](../../artwork/dwc/biennial2020p1.png)
![Percentage of Texas Employers That Are Non-Subscribers and the Percentage of Texas Employees That Are Employed by Non-Subscribers](../../artwork/dwc/biennial2020p2.png)
![Texas Medical Payments Per Claim Lower Than Many Study States](../../artwork/dwc/biennial2020p3.png)
![Compared to the Medical Care You Usually Receive When You Are Injured or Sick, Would You Say the Care You Received for Your Work-Related Injury or Illness Was Better, Same, or Worse?](../../artwork/dwc/biennial2020p4.png)
Today on average, injured employees are waiting half as long to get their first non-emergency medical visit as they did in 2011.
![Average Number of Days from Date of Injury to Date of First Non-Emergency Treatment 2011-2020, Six Months Post-Injury](../../artwork/dwc/biennial2020p5.png)
A higher percentage of injured employees receiving income benefits went back to work within six months in 2017 (83 percent), compared to those in 2007 (78 percent).
![Percentage of Injured Employees Receiving TIBs Who Initially Returned to Work at Six Months and One Year Post‐Injury](../../artwork/dwc/biennial2020p6.png)
Since 2005, medical fee disputes decreased about 65 percent, preauthorization and concurrent review disputes decreased about 20 percent, and retrospective medical necessity disputes have essentially disappeared in the system.
![Total Number of Medical Disputes Received, 2005 and 2019](../../artwork/dwc/biennial2020p7.png)