New Schedules Raise Medical Fees, Add Many New Codes

The Florida Division of Workers' Compensation has released new reimbursement manuals and fee schedules that would raise fees for most procedures for hospitals, doctors and ambulatory surgery centers. The manuals also add several new current procedural terminology codes to the list of procedures that are assigned maximum reimbursement allowances, or MRAs. “They’ve basically doubled the number of MRAs,” said Christine Sensenig, a Sarasota attorney who represents Mitchell International, a claims management and software firm. Some health care providers and their ...