RBRVS Regs Would Increase Provider Pay 19.6%

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefThe proposed conversion of California's physician fee schedule to Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value Scale will increase physician fees by more than $200 million in the next four years in a state that pays doctors some of the lowest prices in the nation.But that gain won't be spread evenly across all medical practices.Medical specialists, who have been fighting a conversion to RBRVS since the DWC first introduced the concept in 1999, remain opposed to the plan, even though the Legislature has already settled the question by mandating an RBRV...