Medical Fee Guide Would Cap Pain Cream Prices

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission is moving to cap the price of compounded pain creams, impose deadlines on employer medical evaluations and reduce the cost of physical therapy as part of a rewrite of the commission's three-year-old medical fee schedule.The commission this week posted an 824-page proposed medical fee schedule that would update fees to conform to the 2013 Current Procedural Terminology codes, Current Dental Terminology codes and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...