Geographic Pricing Proposal Returns to State

Five years ago, the California Division of Workers’ Compensation said there would be little value added, when considering the cost of increased billing complexity and potential for mischief, to adopt Medicare’s location-based reimbursement methodology. But since then, the federal health care program has adopted a more accurate process for dividing the state into different zones that the DWC said will better ensure that injured workers have access to care.  A Rand Corp. analysis found that Medicare’s revised Geographic Practice Cost Indices...