Early Analysis of RBRVS Reveals 'Encouraging' Developments

The amount paid to California physicians per claim under the new Resource-Based Relative Value Scale fee schedule was more than 6% lower than the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau had projected. The WCIRB projected in October 2013 that the amount paid to physicians per claim would increase by 2.4% in 2014 under the RBRVS fee schedule mandated by Senate Bill 863 that went into effect last Jan. 1. But a comparison in payments made in the first two quarters of 2013 to payments made in the first two quarters of 2014 found the amount paid to physicians per claim had a...