By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Florida Hospital Association challenged the data the state Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) plans to use for its new outpatient fee schedule on Wednesday and said hospitals can't afford the average 10% fee cut that would result from its use."This data is stale," said Stephen Emmanuel, an attorney for the hospital group. "And I don't think it takes a Ph.D. in mathematics to say that if you're paying everybody based on an average, hospitals are going to lose 10% of what they are being paid today."That should tell you there's...
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