DWC Posts Adjustments to Hospital, ASC Fee Schedule

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that it adopted changes to the hospital and ambulatory surgery center section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule to conform to revisions made by Medicare. The division on March 30 issued an order incorporating Medicare’s changes into the Hospital Outpatient Departments and Ambulatory Surgical Centers Fee Schedule portion of the OMFS for services provided on or after April 1. On May 4, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a corrected “Addendum B” to supersede the previous document that was ef...