BWC Proposes Amendments to Fee Schedules

The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will hold a public hearing at 1 p.m. on March 23 on amendments to its fee schedules for medical services and professional providers, outpatient hospital services and ambulatory surgery centers. Rule 4123-6-08, medical services and professional provider fee schedule, has proposed changes that would adopt the 2016 relative value unit updates for all common procedural terminology codes published in Medicare’s 2016 final rule. It also would update the current Ohio provider service specialty conversion factors to maintain the state’s perc...