The fee increase comes as part of a package of reforms that will encourage physicians to treat workers’ comp patients. Low reimbursement combined with increased paperwork has historically dissuaded physicians from treating injured workers, according to the report.
The workers’ comp fees are still less than Medicare rates, according to the report. The increase applies only to evaluation and management services in doctors’ offices, emergency rooms and hospitals, not to radiology or surgery.
Read the Post-Standard report on workers’ compensation.
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