Ohio: Board to alter fee schedules

The Bureau of Workers' Compensation board of directors adopted new fee schedules that will increase overall reimbursements to ambulatory surgical centers and vocational rehabilitation providers that treat injured workers.

The new fee schedules will increase payments to the surgical centers by 16 percent and those to the vocational rehabilitation centers 6 percent over 2009 rates. The vocational rehabilitation fee schedule will become effective Feb. 15, 2010, and the ambulatory surgical center fee schedule will become effective April 1, 2010. For more information, visit www.ohiobwc.com/Default.aspx.

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February 8, 2010

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