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NCCI Highlights Key CMS Reimbursement Updates and Potential Impact on Workers’ Compensation Medical Costs
NCCI Highlights Key CMS Reimbursement Updates and Potential Impact on Workers’ Compensation Medical Costs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updates its reimbursement rules and rates for medical services each year. NCCI highlights some of the most relevant changes in the 2026 update for the following service […]
What are the Reimbursement Guidelines in North Dakota?
What are the Reimbursement Guidelines in North Dakota?

Compliance Corner When an injured worker seeks reimbursement under North Dakota workers' compensation law, what steps must she follow? Thanks to Simply Research, we take a look. Basics Requests for reimbursement must be received within […]
Could Traveling Nurse Inject Mileage Reimbursement into her AWW?
Could Traveling Nurse Inject Mileage Reimbursement into her AWW?

What Do You Think? When determining disability benefits based on an employee’s average weekly wages, judges typically include salary, commissions, and bonuses. A recent Kentucky Supreme Court addresses whether an employee’s mileage reimbursement should be […]
Mass. Top Court Sides with MIIF, Green Lights COLA Reimbursements
Mass. Top Court Sides with MIIF, Green Lights COLA Reimbursements

Case File Because the Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund takes over an insolvent insurer's rights and responsibilities under the commonwealth's workers' compensation law, it has a right to collect cost-of-living adjustment reimbursements as the insurer would […]
Mass. ‘Run-Off’ Insurers May Collect 2nd Injury Reimbursements
Mass. ‘Run-Off’ Insurers May Collect 2nd Injury Reimbursements

Case File An insurer in "run-off" sought to collect second-injury trust fund reimbursements for payments it made to an injured worker, but the trust fund contended that the insurer was a nonparticipant and so could […]
Medicare Fee Schedules and Workers’ Compensation in 2024 
Medicare Fee Schedules and Workers’ Compensation in 2024 

WHAT: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updates its reimbursement rules and rates for medical services each year.   This report highlights the 2024 changes to CMS fee schedules for the following service […]
Congress Looking at Partially Reversing Physician Reimbursement Cuts 
Congress Looking at Partially Reversing Physician Reimbursement Cuts 

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – This year physician reimbursement saw another decrease overall, dropping 3.4 percent by means of a reduction to the conversion factor used to calculate rates. The conversion factor dropped from $33.89 in […]
Determining Reasonable IME Fees in Iowa Requires Looking at Rates in Relevant Area
Determining Reasonable IME Fees in Iowa Requires Looking at Rates in Relevant Area

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When it comes to money, what's reasonable in one place might be too expensive somewhere else. As the Iowa high court explained in Mid American Construction LLC v. Sandlin, No. […]