Law Firm Notes Compliance Issues on Surgical Center Payments

The Downs and Stanford law firm in Austin has issued an advisory to clients regarding the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation's memorandum correcting the calculation of ambulatory surgical center fully implemented reimbursement rates for 2010."The importance of this advisory is that these payments are made through, in most instances, a utilization review agent and the carrier should assure that such agents are aware of this memorandum and the new published fully implemented weight to be given for each approved surgical procedure, the applicable conversion factor...and that appropri...