title: Workers' compensation laws undergo significant change. The Health Care Group.
abstract: More than six months have passed since Act 44, the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act, was signed into law. The act imposes additional requirements and prohibitions to the state's already complicated workers' compensation system--changes such as revisions to the reimbursement rates and fee schedule review process, self-referral prohibitions, and alterations to the utilization review and peer review process. Since these new tenets continue to affect physicians as both health care providers and employers, they are briefly reviewed here for members' reference.
mesh_terms: D010414:Pennsylvania; D014942:Workers' Compensation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*