States without workers’ compensation fee schedules have higher hospital outpatient/ambulatory surgical center costs for common surgeries compared to states with fee schedules, according to research ...

For compliance officers, in-house counsel, and health care attorneys, understanding the contours of this state-level restriction is essential to managing exposure and designing referral structures ...

The decision requires employers and workers’ compensation insurers to rely on a different statutory formula than they had previously used for determining the rate that serves as the bottom threshold ...