Early Post-863 Experience Consistent with WCIRB Projections

SAN FRANCISCO – For better and for worse, preliminary data collected by the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau suggests many of the initial projections, estimates and postulations about the effects Senate Bill 863 would have on California are correct. Lien filing fees imposed by the bill have dramatically reduced the number of liens filed by interpreters, medical-legal providers and copy shops. Eliminating the pass-through on spinal hardware cut the cost of fusion surgeries. Cutting the reimbursement rate for ambulatory surgery centers to 80% of the Medicare rate shaved a...