States that have percent-of-charge-based fee regulations or no fee schedules also have substantially higher hospital outpatient payments per surgical episode, according to a new study.
“Hospital Outpatient Payment Index: Interstate Variations and Policy Analysis, 6th Edition,” from the Workers Compensation Research Institute, is the latest in a series which compares hospital payments for a group of common outpatient surgeries in workers’ compensation across 35 states; those states represent 88 percent of the workers’ compensation benefits paid in the U.S. The study also monitors the trends within each state from 2005–2015.
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