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 Successes and Failures of Fee Schedules: How Medical Providers Circumvent Fee Schedule-Related Revenue Losses, by John Stahl, Esq. Any first-semester political science major can tell you that government regulation is a common method for controlling what a business can charge for goods or services. Fee schedules provide this price control regarding workers' compensation medical costs. Like most forms of government intervention into the free market, this approach has limited effectiveness. Understanding fee schedules requires comprehending the distinction between the "price" and the "cost" of workers' compensation medical services. The "price" refers to the reimbursement that a medical service provider can receive for a treatment; the "cost" refers to the amount that a workers' compensation insurer or other entity that is liable for workers' compensation claims actually spends regarding the services that the claimant ultimately receives. Read more.
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 Idiopathic Fall From Bridge Arose From Employment, by Thomas A. Robinson. A highway construction worker, who suffered from type I diabetes, was insulin dependent, and whose work required him to be present on a bridge some 60 feet above a river, likely became disoriented due to hypoglycemia on the evening he climbed over a safety barrier and jumped from the bridge, causing serious injury, held the Supreme Court of Kentucky recently in an unpublished opinion. Read more about this case and other cases on Hepatitis, Slip and Fall, and Heart Attack.
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Workers' Comp Fee Schedules
Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter: Disabled Cop Caught Playing Baseball. 
California Public Sector Work Injury Claim Payments Remain Near 10-Year High, by California Workers' Compensation Institute. 
California: SB 863 and Benson, by Robert G. Rassp, Esq. 
The Passover Post: Delaware IAB Comments on Residence Status and the Displaced Worker, by Cassandra Roberts, Esq. 
Missouri: Lab Tech Proves a Work-Related Hep C Infection, 
