Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features the release of a new study from CWCI that measures changes in the volume and reimbursement of different types of medical services in the wake of incremental reforms to the California workers’ comp system enacted over the past 20 years.
At the top of key findings was that the average number of visits for Evaluation and Management (E&M) and Physical Medicine services in the state have continued to edge down since the enactment of SB 863 in 2012, but with the adoption of the RBRVS fee schedule, evidence-based medicine standards, mandatory Utilization Review and Independent Medical Review, and other reforms, E&M and Physical Medicine payments have increased from 33% to 47% of the total medical reimbursements in the system.
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