The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development adopted a new medical fee schedule that the National Council on Compensation Insurance projects to reduce total system costs by 3.7%.
The new fee schedule, which goes into effect for services provided on or after Jan. 1, reduces the work, practice expense and malpractice relative value units that are used to calculate total reimbursement under the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale fee schedule.
The work relative value unit, or RVU, will be 1.03, down from 1.27 in 2019. The practice expense RVU will drop to 1.61 from 2....
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