Updated Fee Schedule Will Yield Slightly Lower Costs for Common CPT Codes

The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs will hold a public hearing Oct. 14 on proposed amendments to workers’ compensation health care services rules and fee schedule. Updating the rules per the current year of CMS Relative Value Units will trigger a slight decrease in medical payments of 1.6% for the 50 most-used current procedural terminology codes, but just a .57% decrease for the 10 most frequently used CPT codes, the agency says in a regulatory impact statement and cost-benefit analysis. “There are no expenditures specifically associated with th...