OWC Publishes Proposed Fee Schedule Revisions

The Delaware Office of Workers’ Compensation has posted proposed revisions in its Monthly Register of Regulations to reflect the state’s new fee schedule, mandated by a law passed during this year’s legislative session. The revised rules and regulations reflect the savings mandated by House Bill 373, which charged a new Workers’ Compensation Oversight Panel with establishing a fee schedule to cut medical costs by 20% in the first year and 33% over three years. The fee schedule is based on the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale or equivalent scale used by the federal C...