The Industrial Commission of Arizona should adopt Medicare’s Resource Based Relative Scale reimbursement methodology as the foundation of its workers’ compensation fee schedule, according to a report by Public Consulting Group.
The report released Tuesday says “it would be feasible and advantageous” for the ICA to adopt Medicare’s payment methodology, which is used for work comp fee schedules in 32 states.
“While a new rate structure would change many reimbursement values, these changes would not destabilize the workers’ compensation program,&r...
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