Providers Support Geographic Pricing but Share Concern About Access

Medical providers warned during a hearing Tuesday that adopting geographic price modifiers in the state's fee schedule may create access problems in rural areas, even though they were generally supportive of setting different prices to account for differences in the cost of running a practice in the state's far-flung regions. The Division of Workers' Compensation in March proposed rules to adopt Medicare’s Geographic Price Cost Indices that would make reimbursement dependent on where a service is provided. The proposal would create 32 distinct regions in the state...