DWC Posts Additional Fee Schedule Adjustments

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has posted an order adjusting the physician services and non-physician practitioner services section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule to incorporate changes made by Medicare. The division said the Wednesday order signed by Administrative Director George Parisotto adopts a revised Relative Value Unit file for 2018 that was issued by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Dec. 20. California’s fee schedule is based on Medicare’s Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, which assigns relative value units to p...