DWC Schedules Public Hearing on Med-Legal Fee Schedule Changes

The Division of Workers’ Compensation said it will hold a public hearing to discuss changes to the Medical-Legal Fee Schedule after receiving an “overwhelming response” to rules that were proposed in May. The division in May posted to its online forum draft rules that it said would identify objective standards for the appropriate use of complexity factors used to determine how much a qualified medical evaluator should be paid for an exam. Users submitted more than 520 pages of comments during a two-week period suggesting that the DWC consider a more comprehensive overhaul o...