Revised Fee Schedules Leave Providers Asking for More

Despite hundreds of public comments, including 262 postcards from a single law firm, the New York Workers’ Compensation Board has made only relatively minor changes to its medical fee schedules, leaving some chiropractors, psychologists, physicians and worker advocates asking for a few more revisions. The fee schedules, unveiled in June, raise fees overall by about 5% — the first significant increase since 1996. But the schedules also propose new ground rules, standards and current procedural terminology codes that providers said would end up reducing reimbursement ...