Lawmakers Pass Bill to Delay RBRVS Implementation

Lawmakers in Alaska still in session a week after they were scheduled to adjourn used the extra time to pass a bill that would delay the implementation of a Resource-Based Relative Value Scale fee schedule by five months. The Senate on Sunday voted 20-0 to pass House Bill 178, by Rep. Kurt Olson, R-Kenai. The bill would extend the deadline for the Medical Services Review Committee, an advisory panel to the Division of Workers' Compensation, to establish conversion factors for the new fee schedule. Gov. Sean Parnell last year signed HB 316, also by Olson, requiring the committee to ad...