Time Running Out for RBRVS, Opioid Bills

The Alaska House of Representatives last week passed bills that would adopt Medicare’s Resource Based Relative Value Scale and prohibit physicians from prescribing more than a 30-day supply of opioids, but the action may have come too late for the bills to move through the Senate before the end of the session.House Bill 316, by Rep. Kurt Olson, R-Kenai, would base physician reimbursements on the RBRVS fee schedule. Payments for outpatient services would be based on the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ ambulatory payment classifications and payments for inpatient pro...