Division Will Again Resolve Bill Disputes in Contracted Medical Care, Rules Show

Eight months after an administrative law judge ordered the Florida Division of Workers' Compensation to bite the bullet and resolve billing disputes involving contracted and managed care, the division has proposed new rules that offer little more than what's in the law. But that's not such a bad thing, said the lead plaintiff in the case. "The rules are tremendously stripped down now and pared back to what the statute says," said Peter Lohrengel, executive director of the Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgical Centers. "The rule-making now mirrors the statute, ...