WCD Issues Billing Code Advisory Notice

The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division issued an advisory notice identifying codes that providers can use to bill for interactions with attorneys and carriers. “As a provider treating injured workers, you often have to wear many hats and there are a lot of people in our workers’ compensation community that you may interact with,” the division said in an email. “Some of the time spent for these interactions (is) billable.” Billing codes the division identified include: D0001, which is paid as billed for time spent consulting with a carrier’...