Industrial Commission Proposes Fee Schedule Increases

The Industrial Commission of Arizona will hold a public hearing in April to discuss proposed changes to its fee schedule that would increase payments for surgery codes, physical medicine codes and evaluation and management codes.The Industrial Commission is proposing increases to the value for surgical procedures identified by Current Procedural Terminology Codes 25000 through 39599 that would, on average, increase payments by 13.44%. Some proposed payments will be the same, but reimbursement would not be reduced for any code.Similarly, there are no proposed decreases in the changes to payment...