DWC Updates Fee Schedules

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced adjustments to sections of the Official Medical Fee Schedule that went into effect Sunday to account for changes in the Medicare payment system. The division posted an order adjusting the pathology and clinical laboratory section of the OMFS to adopt Medicare’s fourth-quarter update to its pathology and clinical lab fee schedule. “In addition, DWC orders continued use of prices for specified COVID-19 testing codes based upon 120% of the rate established by the California Medicare Administrative Contractor,...