RBRVS Costs $89 Million Less in Latest Analysis

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefCalifornia's conversion of its Official Medical Fee Schedule to Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value Scale just got $89 million cheaper. On paper, at least.Rand Corp. said an accidental “double application” of inflation factors and inconsistencies in how some procedure codes were evaluated caused it to overstate the financial impact of the California Division of Workers’ Compensation's proposal to adopt a Resource-Based Relative Value Scale.The revised analysis of the division’s planned four-year transition to RBRVS say...