DWC Gives Up on New Reimbursement Manuals Until Next Year

With disagreements over medical fees on all fronts and time running out, the Florida Division of Workers' Compensation has decided to wait until next year to finalize reimbursement manuals for hospitals, doctors and ambulatory surgery centers. “Even assuming a best-case scenario, there is insufficient time remaining to adopt the 2018 Reimbursement Manuals. The division believes focusing on the 2019 manuals is a better use of resources,” DWC Director Tanner Holloman wrote in a memo to the Three-Member Panel. The panel is made up of the state insurance commissioner and two...