DWC Updates Physician, Practitioner Fee Schedule

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation adopted changes to the Official Medical Fee Schedule to conform to changes in the Medicare payment system. The division said in a statement that it incorporated into the physician and non-physician practitioner fee schedule several changes Medicare adopted for the fourth quarter, including updated relative value files, National Correct Coding Initiative Practitioner procedure-to-procedure edits and medically unlikely edits, and updated ZIP code data to for Geographic Practice Cost Index mapping. Fee schedule changes apply to service...