WCC Debate over RBRVS Drawing Opposition from Business

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe chairman of a South Carolina committee established to protect small businesses in the state said Tuesday his panel may require the state Workers' Compensation Commission to file impact statements before going forward with a regulation that would allow it to break ties with the Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) for setting doctors' fees.Monty Felix, chairman of the South Carolina Small Business Regulatory Review Committee, said in an interview that the proposed regulation has "kicked up some hackles.""What the commission wa...