Fixed-amount fee schedules are those that reimburse specific amounts to hospitals for each procedure or group of procedures, similar to fee-for-service. In states that paid hospital outpatient fees based on a percent of charges, such as Florida and North Carolina, outpatient costs were up to 91 percent higher than the median costs of states with fixed-amount fee schedules.
In addition, hospital outpatient costs were 39 to 98 percent higher in states that had no fee schedules for workers’ compensation compared with states that had fixed-amount fee schedules.
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