Regulators Investigating Cuts to Implant Reimbursements

By John P. Kamin, ReporterThe South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation will try to verify carriers' claims that providers are overcharging  for medical implants as it mulls a potential change to the state's medical fee schedule.The state's Workers' Compensation Advisory Council and the Department of Labor and Regulation have been discussing potential changes to allowable fees for medical implants since the council's July 11 meeting and are gathering data on actual reimbursement rates.Larry Klaahsen, vice president of third-party-administrator Risk Administration...