Stakeholders Surprised by Second Reimbursement Panel Meeting

Florida's Three-Member Panel, the quasi-government group charged with deciding workers' compensation medical reimbursement rates, has surprised stakeholders by doing something it has rarely done in recent years. The panel has scheduled another official meeting, barely a month after it held a meeting in December that recommended some controversial fee schedule changes to the Florida Legislature. Before the December meeting, the panel had last convened in October 2019. This time, the panel plans to address one of the biggest elephants in the room: A request to drop a statute requiring ...