Medicare-Based Schedules Lowering Professional Service Costs

Medicare-based fee schedules for professional services in Delaware have decreased rates by 40% after legislators enacted a series of three annual reforms beginning in January 2015, a new Workers Compensation Research Institute study shows. Before the passage of House Bill 373 and the introduction of the Medicare-based schedules, Delaware’s workers’ compensation rates for professional services were 223% of Medicare, the second highest among 44 jurisdictions with fee schedules. After transitioning to the Medicare-based fee schedule for professional services in early 2015, ...