Insurers Push, Doctors Resist Medicare-Based Fee Schedule

National and state insurance trade groups have asked the Wisconsin Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council to adopt a fee schedule based on Medicare’s Resource-Based Relative Value System with a uniform conversion factor across all services. In a Nov. 23 letter to council Chairman B.J. Dernbach, insurers say Wisconsin is one of just five states without a provider medical fee schedule, and that its medical costs are higher and growing faster than in most other states. The Wisconsin Medical Society strongly objects to the notion that an “arbitrary” Medicare-based sch...