RBRVS Fee Schedule First Step to Control Nation's No. 1 Costs

By Greg Jones Western Bureau ChiefThe Alaska Legislature has passed a bill that would make it the 28th state to use Medicare’s Resource-Based Relative Value Scale as the foundation for its workers’ compensation medical fee schedule.The Senate, still in session after the 90-day statutory limit passed on Sunday, voted 18-0 on Wednesday to pass House Bill 316, by Rep. Kurt Olson, R-Kenai, and send the measure to Gov. Sean Parnell. The bill would require the Workers’ Compensation Board to adopt by July 1, 2015, an RBRVS fee schedule for physician services using a conversion facto...