Inflation Adjustment for Fee Schedule Pleases Few

A year into Virginia’s new workers’ compensation medical fee schedules, regulators are in the middle of a required review process. The first set of revisions, announced last week, don’t seem to please stakeholders on either side of the issue. The state Workers’ Compensation Commission released a policy statement Jan. 15 that appears to split the baby on how medical fees will be adjusted for inflation. In the short term, for 2019 adjustments, the commission will consider only the 2018 inflation factor, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consume...