WCRI Webinar Focuses on Fee Schedule Designs

Monday, October 16, 2017 | 0

Key decisions that states have to make when designing and updating medical fee schedules will be the topic of a webinar by the Workers Compensation Research Institute on Nov. 2.

Senior Public Policy Analyst Rebecca Yang and economist Olesya Fomenko will discuss WCRI research on fee schedules, and take questions from the audience. Studies to be covered in the webinar include:

• Designing Workers’ Compensation Medical Fee Schedules 2016. The study highlighted important design choices that public officials face in adopting, reforming and updating fee schedules for physicians, and discussed how the 43 states with fee schedules, and the District of Columbia, resolved the choices. 
• WCRI Medical Price Index for Workers’ Compensation, Ninth Edition. The study examined the interstate variations in prices paid for medical professional services for treating injured workers in 31 states and monitored the trends in each.
• Hospital Outpatient Payment Index: Interstate Variations and Policy Analysis, 6th Edition. The study compared the hospital outpatient payments for common surgeries under workers' compensation across 35 states and examined the trends within each state.

Questions to be addressed in the webinar include:

• What are the different types of fee schedules that states use to regulate reimbursement for medical professional and hospital services?
• How do medical prices paid for professional and hospital outpatient services in your state compare with others?  
• How are medical prices shaped by fee schedule policy choices?
• What is the impact of recent fee schedule reforms on medical prices paid?

Participation in the webinar is free for WCRI members and $50 for non-members. Attendance is limited to 500. Participants receive a free copy of the slides to be presented.

To register, click here.