DWC Posts Additional Adjustment to Hospital, ASC Fee Schedule

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation posted an order adjusting the hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule to conform to the latest changes in the Medicare payment system. Earlier in October, the division adopted Medicare’s quarterly updates to the fee schedule. Since then, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued revised fee schedule documents. The division’s order adopts specific columns from certain tables in the CMS “October 2022 ASC Approved Healthcare Common Procedure C...