Division of Workers' Compensation

Medical Provider

New!  Medical Fee Schedule Seminars for 2009-2010

 

New!  Rule 8 – Audio Recording of Independent Medical Examinations

   (effective for cases where the claim was filed on or after August 5, 2009)

• Form #WC34 - Request to Erase (Redact) Medical Information from an Audio Recording

• Form #WC36 - IME Advisement

• Q&A for Physicians regarding the Audio-Recording process

Important!  Desk Aid #13 - Scheduled Impairment Chart

Important!  Nov. 2008 Update to Impairment Rating Tips, Desk Aid #11

Important! Epidural Spinal Injections

Quick List

• 2009 Legislative Advisory
• 2009 Statutory Amendments

• General Medical Payment Topics

• Workers’ Compensation Forms/Desk Aids

• Accreditation - Level I and Level II

• Director's Interpretive Bulletins and other Advisories

• Impairment Rating Information

• Chronic Pain and Opioid Management

• Independent Medical Exams (IME Program)

• Medical Utilization Review Program

• Other Resources

Index to Statutory references, Rule 16 and 18 topics, and other subjects

• Acupuncture

• AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment

• Ambulatory Surgery Center Fees

• Anesthesia

• Apportionment

• Artificial Limb

• Arithmetic Means

• Audiology

• Authorized Treating Provider (ATP)

• Balance Billing

• Base Rates

• Billing

• Biofeedback

• Braces

• Cancellation Fees

• Case Management

• Change of Physician

• Chiropractics

• Claimant’s Cost

• Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM)

• Conferences (SAMMS)

• Conversion Factors

• Co-ordination of Care

• Copying Fees

• Cost Paid by Claimant

• Cost-to-Charge Ratios

• Critical Access Hospitals

• Definitions

• Delayed Recovery Evaluation and Testing

• Dental Fees

• Dental Schedule                                                              

• Dental Treatment

• Dentures

• Depositions

• Dictating Care

• Discontinued Surgeries

• Division Created Codes

• Durable Medical Equipment (DME)

• Documentation

• Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs)

• Emotional stress (see "Mental Impairment")

• Employee  

• Employer

• Epidural Spinal Injections

• Evaluation and Management

• Examination, medical

• Eye Glasses (see "Glasses")

• Facility Fees (see "Hospital" this listing)

• Fees

• Fee Schedule

• Functional Capacity Guidelines

• Geometric Means

• Glasses

• Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment

• Hearing Aid

• Hepatitis C

• HIPAA

• Home Therapy

• Hospital

• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

• IME

• Impairment Ratings - Authority and Payment

• Impairment Ratings - Tips and Guidelines

• Implants

• Inpatient Hospital Facility (see "Hospital")

• Interdisciplinary Rehab Programs

• Interdisciplinary Team Conferences

• Interprofessional Code

• Jurisdictional Codes

• Licensed Clinical Psychologist Reimbursement

• Major Medical Fund

• Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) Fees

• Medical Disaster Insurance Fund

• Medical Fee Schedule

• Medical Record Privacy (see "HIPAA")

• Medical Treatment Guidelines

• Medicine

• Mental Impairment

• Mental stress (see "Mental Impairment")

• Mileage Expenses

• Missed appointments

• Modification of Codes

• Nutrition

• Occupational Disease

• Occupational Therapy

• Opioids - Chronic Use

• Orthotics

• Osteopathy

• Outpatient APC Groupers

• Outpatient Emergency Room Department

• Outpatient Surgery Facility

• Outpatient Surgery Facility Fees

• Outpatient Urgent Care Facility

• Out-of-State Injury

• Out-of-State Provider Reimbursement

• Pain -- not rendering impairment based on

• Pathology

• Payment

• Permanent Impairment Rating - Payment

• Pharmacy Fees

• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

• Physicians

• Podiatrist

• Prior Authorization

• Prosthesis

• Psychiatrics and Psychology

• Radiology

• Refusal of Care

• Reimbursement of Billings

• Reimbursement Disputes

• Reimbursement

• Relative Values for Physicians

• Relative Weights

• Research and Reports

• Reports

• Right of first choice of physician

• Rural Primary Care Facilities

• SAMMS Conference (see "Conferences, SAMMS")

• Schedule Outpatient Surgery Facility

• Special Reports

• Speech Pathology

• Standard of Care

• Supplies (cf. Supplies et al.)

• Supplies et al.

• Surgery

• Testimony

• Time Limits

• Travel Expenses

• Treatment Guidelines (see "Medical Treatment Guidelines")

• Urgent Care Facility Fees

• Urgent need for care is good cause for expedited hearing

• Utilization Review

• WC 164 Form

• Whole Person Permanent Impairment Rating

• Witness

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