The California Orthopaedic Association came out in support of a proposal to incorporate geographic price modifiers into the medical fee schedule during a 15-day comment period that ended Friday, and State Compensation Insurance Fund has asked for at least six months to implement the changes.
The Division of Workers’ Compensation in March proposed rules to adopt Medicare’s Geographic Practice Cost Indices, which the federal government uses to account for regional variations in the cost of maintaining a practice. In August, the division posted revised rules to correct typograph...
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