DWC posts additional adjustments to Official Medical Fee Schedule for Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, for Hospital Outpatient Departments / Ambulatory Surgical Centers, for Physician Services/Non-Physician Practitioner Services, and posts updated MTUS Drug List Effective February 15.

The order is the second Administrative Director order for the January 2019 annual update to the Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a revised 2019 Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule file on January 15, 2019.

The revised file corrects various technical errors and supersedes the original file.

The initial update to the Physician and Non-Physician Practitioner Fee Schedule. effective for services rendered on or after January 1, 2019, was posted to the DWC website on December 10, 2018.  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services subsequently issued a revised update to the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule on December 20 that made corrections to the Relative Value Unit file and the Geographic Practice Cost Index file.

This second order adopts those corrections.

The update orders adopting the adjustments can be found on the DWC website.

The changes to the MTUS Drug List, based on the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) Practice Guidelines, including the following:

– Addition of drugs addressed in the Traumatic Brain Injury Guideline
– New and Revised, Drug Recommendations (related to the Traumatic Brain Injury Guideline)
– Designation of additional drugs as “special fill” eligible, due to treatment recommendation in the Traumatic Brain Injury Guideline

Additional information regarding the MTUS drug formulary may be found on the MTUS Drug Formulary webpage.