- FAIR Health, a national, independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information.
- The new contract marks the third time FAIR Health will be supporting Kentucky in updating its workers' compensation fee schedule.
Pursuant to a competitive bidding process, the Commonwealth of Kentucky chose FAIR Health to help analyze, revise and update its workers’ compensation fee schedule, FAIR Health announced today. FAIR Health, a national, independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information, will work closely with Kentucky to update the ground rules and rate tables for the workers’ compensation fee schedule for physicians, including medical, anesthesia, transportation, HCPCS and dental procedures.
The fee schedule will be informed by data from FAIR Health’s repository of billions of privately billed claims, the largest such collection in the country. FAIR Health also will assist Kentucky officials from the Department of Workers’ Claims in presenting the fee schedule to workers’ compensation stakeholders before finalization.
The new contract marks the third time FAIR Health will be supporting Kentucky in updating its workers’ compensation fee schedule. FAIR Health was awarded the contracts for these services for Kentucky’s two prior fee schedules, also as a result of competitive bidding processes.
FAIR Health President Robin Gelburd stated: “We are pleased to assist again the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its Department of Workers’ Claims in their efforts to maintain a current, geographically relevant and comprehensive fee schedule that continues to meet the needs of injured workers and all stakeholders. Our experience shows us that states are best served by a fee schedule that is specific to the needs of their jurisdiction and developed using data that have been validated by an independent, neutral organization to satisfy the interests of all parties.”
FAIR Health is working with and in discussions with a number of states relating to the development of their workers’ compensation fee schedules. For example, FAIR Health also is assisting Georgia with its upcoming fee schedule, which will be effective April 1. Our data are not only the basis for fee schedules in some states, but also serve as a primary data source for private companies that process workers’ compensation claims in the absence of a state fee schedule. In addition, FAIR Health data are referenced in statutes, regulations and official memoranda around the country as the designated source of cost information for a variety of state health programs.
Date: March 26, 2018