BUREAU OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
Since 1912, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has provided medical and compensation benefits for work-related injuries, diseases and deaths. BWC provides insurance to about two-thirds of Ohio's work force. The remaining workers receive coverage directly through their self-insured employers.
With more than $19 billion in assets, BWC is the largest exclusive state-fund workers’ compensation system in the United States and the second largest underwriter of workers’ compensation insurance in the country. In fiscal year 2006, BWC provided workers’ compensation coverage to more than 288,000 employers, processed more than 188,000 new claims and paid out more than $1.9 billion in benefits. Premiums and assessments from employers was more than $2.1 billion.
Ohio’s workers’ compensation system is made up of two parts: BWC, the administrative and insurance arm of the system, and the Industrial Commission of Ohio, the claims adjudicative arm.
NEWS
3/20/2008::
BWC
update memo on medical records
requirements for hospital bills
released.
2/28/2008::
Hospitals affected by the
OHA lawsuit against the Ohio Bureau of
Workers Compensation should receive notices
and listings of claims from the Bureau today
via email. Addressed to hospital chief
financial officers,
the Bureau communication includes
spreadsheets with detailed information
about the affected claims and estimated
adjustment amounts. BWC has set up an email
box,
HospitalFeeAdjustments@bwc.state.oh.us, to handle hospital
questions and comments.
2/18/2008::
At its Friday
meeting, the OHA Board of Trustees
endorsed
BWC's plan
to begin adjusting bill payments to Ohio
hospitals underpaid as a result of the fee
schedule that was the subject of OHA v.
Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
BWC has established a two-month timeline
within which all affected providers should
receive amounts equal to the underpayments
on Health Partnership Program, state-fund
inpatient bills between Oct. 1, 2005, and
Dec. 31, 2006, and outpatient bills with
service dates between Oct. 1, 2005, and
Sept. 30, 2007. The Board also strongly
endorsed the
OHA Finance Committee's recommendation
that BWC communicate
the terms of the plan to the BWC
self-insured division and to notify
self-insured employers of their potential
obligation.
2/06/2008::
A
memo updating the OHA Finance and
ABC Committees on the OHA lawsuit on
2006 & 2007 HPP hospital payments, and
several other corrections to HPP payment
systems was released today.
Available to members only.
11/8/2007:: BWC holds public hearing on
revised Ohio Administrative Code Rule
4123-6-37.1 guiding HPP inpatient
hospital reimbursement. See proposed
amended rule and
OHA’s comment.
9/1/2007:: BWC posts hospital-specific
cost-to-charge ratios (CCRs), updated to
reflect state fiscal year 2006 Medicaid
Cost Report data. New CCRs are
available in Chapter Three, pages 104
-118, of BWC
Provider Billing and Reimbursement
Manual.
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