States with no fee schedules see higher hospital outpatient payments per episode, study finds

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Hospitals in states with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations or no fee schedules saw higher and faster growing outpatient payments than states with fixed-amount fee schedules in 2015, an annual study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute found. Continue reading article here…

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