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Workers’ Comp
Agency Publishes Revised 2004 Fee Schedule
The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) recently published a revised 2004 Official Medical Fee Schedule (OMFS). The revised fee schedule, which goes into effect today, is available online for download. When the legislature last year cut workers’ compensation physician reimbursement by 5 percent, CMA worked hard to ensure that CPT codes already paid below average California Medicare rates would not be subject to further reduction. DWC had not planned to publish a revised fee schedule to reflect the 5 percent cut, but rather intended to let the individual workers’ comp carriers calculate the rate adjustments. CMA opposed this and worked closely with DWC, and even provided hundreds of hours of staff time, to assure that an official OMFS was available and free to physicians. After DWC in January released the 2004 OMFS, however, numerous changes to the Medicare fee schedule in February required the fee schedule to be recalculated to reflect the changes. Most of the changes are minor. Contact: Nileen Verbeten, 916/444-5532 or nverbeten@cmanet.org.
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