Division Adopts Medicare Corrections to Outpatient Payment Cap

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced additional changes to the physician and non-physician practitioner section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule, based on Medicare’s corrections to its annual update. At the end of January, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services adopted a retroactive correction to its annual Medicare Physician Fee Schedule update, the DWC said in a statement released Tuesday. The correction changed the Outpatient Prospective Payment System cap that is used to determine fee schedule rates. The division said an order signed Thu...