Legislators Receptive to Medical Fee Schedule

By Peter Mantius, Northern Bureau ChiefA bill that would impose a medical fee schedule for workers’ compensation cases received a generally favorable reception from state lawmakers at a joint Assembly-Senate committee hearing Tuesday.Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor, said the fee schedule would still pay doctors in workers’ compensation cases 10% more than average group health rates.That means, Grothman said, that if 100 people with a variety of coverage plans – including Medicare, Medicaid and group health insurance &...