DWC Adjusts Pathology, Lab Section of Fee Schedule

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation posted an order incorporating Medicare’s updated COVID-19 testing codes and fees into the Pathology and Clinical Laboratory section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published fees for three additional COVID-19 testing codes on May 19, the division said. The DWC on May 21 adopted the three new codes to supplement COVID-19 testing codes and fees previously adopted in an April 15 order. One of the new Current Procedural Terminology codes, 87635, for infectious agent detecti...