Home Health Fee Schedule Rules in Progress

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation continues to work on rules to implement the requirement from Senate Bill 863 to adopt a fee schedule for home health care services. Coventry said in a new regulation bulletin that the home health care fee schedule rules, last updated in September 2016, remain a work in progress. A Rand Corp. report in 2015 said the federal Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs home health fee schedule would essentially be plug-and-play for California’s state system. However, Rand said SB 863 appeared to limit the division to rates paid by ...