RBRVS Transition Developing as Expected, CWCI Reports

Reforms enacted in 2012 that required the Division of Workers' Compensation to transition to a medical fee schedule modeled after Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value scale appear to be developing as expected, according to a recent report by the California Workers' Compensation Institute. Utilization and reimbursement for evaluation and management and physical medicine went up, while services for more specialized care went down, CWCI said in the report released last week. Senate Bill 863, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2012, required the DWC to move to the RBRVS model...