Long-Sought Medical Fee Schedule Going Nowhere, Speaker Says

Proposed legislation that would create a quasi-Medicare-based fee schedule appears to be dead on arrival, House Speaker Robin Vos told The Associated Press. If rejected by lawmakers, it would be the second time in four years and only the second time since World War II that the Legislature failed to pass an agreed-to bill from the Wisconsin Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council. Every odd-numbered year, the advisory council crafts a workers’ compensation bill negotiated between the council’s management and labor representatives. It is a long-standing tradition in w...