Report: New York Fee Schedule Shifted Surgeries to New Jersey

Nearly half of injured workers in New York City who had arthroscopic surgery on their knee or shoulder at an ambulatory surgery center in 2013 went to New Jersey to have the procedure done, at a much higher average cost, according to report released by the Workers' Compensation Research Institute last week The percentage of New York injured workers living in New York City who traveled to New Jersey ambulatory centers for their surgery grew over time, according to the report. The percentage of ambulatory-center knee surgeries performed for those workers in New Jersey increased from 22...