The new fee schedules will increase payments to ASCs by 16 percent and those to vocational rehabilitation providers will rise by six percent, compared to 2009 rates.
The increase will allow ASC facilities and vocational rehabilitation providers to receive reimbursements that are competitive and consistent in dealing with Ohio managed care, says Carla Tipton, MCO medical bill review manager for Ohio-based CompManagement Health Systems, a Sedgwick CMS company.
“Ambulatory surgical centers and vocational rehabilitation providers are crucial to meeting the needs of injured workers,” Bob Coury, BWC’s chief of medical services, said in the release. “By offering competitive fee schedules we are supporting this network of medical and vocational providers to offer quality medical and rehabilitative care, intended to help injured workers with a safe and swift return to work.”
The vocational rehabilitation fee schedule will become effective Feb. 15, 2010 and ASC fee schedule will become effective April 1, 2010.
Read the BWC’s release on the Ohio workers’ compensation fee schedule.
