QME Reps Say DWC Ignored Agreements Between Payers, Providers​ for Med-Legal Fee Schedule

The president of the California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery and dozens of qualified medical evaluators have accused the Division of Workers' Compensation of breaking multiple agreements struck during recent meetings between insurance payers and health care providers intended to help draft a new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule.  A spokesman for the Division of Workers' Compensation said the agency deferred to the agreements reached during stakeholder meetings and that the proposed rules, with a few exceptions, represent the structure and rates that system users agreed to...