Legislature Mulls RBRVS Fee Schedule

A bill scheduled for a hearing today in the Alaska House of Representatives would tie the state's medical fee schedules to those used by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.House Bill 316 by Rep. Kurt Olson, R-Kenai, would require the physicians fee schedule be tied to Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, payments for outpatient services be based on the CMS ambulatory payment classifications and payments for inpatient hospital procedures be set at the 90th percentile of Medicare's severity diagnosis-related group.The bill also directs the Workers' Com...