West Virginia workers’ comp

Code 97760 — maximum allowable reimbursement

WEST VIRGINIA

Maximum allowable (non-facility)

$57.28

Single statewide rate

Show your work — how this rate is computed

By statute (W. Va. Code §23-4-3(a)(4)), West Virginia sets the workers’-comp maximum at 135% of the Medicare fee for this code in the WEST VIRGINIA Medicare locality.

Medicare fee = $42.43
  = [ (Work 0.50 × 1.00) + (PE 0.87 × 0.87) + (MP 0.01 × 1.43) ] × $33.4009
× 135%
= $57.28
  • RVUs: CMS National Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value File; GPCIs: CMS Geographic Practice Cost Indices (the WEST VIRGINIA Medicare locality).
  • The 135%-of-Medicare rule: West Virginiaworkers’ comp statute (W. Va. Code §23-4-3(a)(4)) source ↗
  • The Medicare fee itself is verified to the penny against the CMS Physician Fee Schedule Look-Up Tool; a code Medicare does not price is shown as an honest gap.

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