DWC Gets More Input on Physician Fee Schedule

By Greg Griggs, EditorOAKLAND, Calif. – Division of Workers' Compensation officials got additional feedback Tuesday on their latest plan to change the physicians fee schedule to a system based on Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value Scale.Despite adding nearly $52 million annually in overall projected physician payments, there were still concerns about whether fees would be adequate and wide support by medical providers and applicants' attorneys for the use of several multipliers -- called conversion factors -- to boost payments to specific specialties beyond what would b...