Hataway Wants Hospital Fee Schedule Bill for 2015

Louisiana Office of Workers’ Compensation Director Wes Hataway wants state lawmakers to consider an update to the state’s hospital fee schedule in its 2015 legislative session. But other stakeholders involved in the effort to update the fee guide told WorkCompCentral this week that an agreement to revamp the state’s two-decades-old fee guide is still a good distance away. “The department wants to get this done before session, which starts April 13, 2015,” Clark Cossé III, general counsel of the Louisiana Hospital Association, said in an interview Tues...