Commission Set to Review Year With Fee Schedule

Until a year ago, Virginia was one of only seven states without a fee schedule for workers' compensation medical services. Now, state regulators are in the midst of reviewing the first year under the schedules, what they have called a transition year. The Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission was scheduled to meet Monday morning to finalize the review of the transition year and the consumer price index for medical services. Due to snow, the meeting was delayed. Last month, the commission heard from its advisory panel and from Oliver Wyman, an actuarial consulting firm that develo...