PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE RULES, REGULATIONS AND FEE SCHEDULE OF THE WYOMING WORKERS’ COMPENSATION DIVISION

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE RULES, REGULATIONS
AND FEE SCHEDULE OF THE WYOMING WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
DIVISION
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Wyoming Workers’ Compensation Division
is proposing changes that will affect the Division’s rules, regulations and fee schedule. These
proposals include modifications to the Wyoming Workers’ Compensation Rules, Regulations and
Fee Schedules;
The Division updates the fee schedules and the rules each year to adopt the most recent
codes published by the American Medical Association (AMA) and Optum 360. The
Division proposes to adopt the 2018 fee schedule, effective 1/1/18.
Section 1 – General Guidelines and Section 2 – Fee schedules – includes incorporation by
reference language to adopt the most recent editions of the Relative Values for Physicians
(RVP) and the Relative Values for Dentists (RVD) fee schedules.
The adoption of 2018 fee schedule also means the deletion of the following codes:
62310 Inject Spine cerv/thoracic 22520 Percut vertebroplasty thor
62311 Inject spine lumbar/sacral 22521 Percut vertebroplasty lumb
62318 Inject Spine w/cath crv/thrc 22524 Percut kyphoplasty lumbar
62319 Inject Spine w/cath lmb/scrl 22851 Apply Spine Prosth Device
64412 N Block Inj Spinal Accessor 23331 Remove Shoulder foreign body
64613 Destroy Nerve Neck Muscle 29582 Apply Multlay comprs upr leg
64614 Destroy Nerve Extrem Muscle 64565 Implant Neuroelectrodes
11752 Remove Nail Bed/Tip
Written comments should be submitted to the following address by April 23, 2018.
Wyoming Workers’ Compensation Division
ATTN: Administrator
1510 East Pershing Boulevard
Cheyenne, WY 82002
(307) 777-7672
Or via email to: marcia.price@wyo.gov
A public comment period will end at close of business on April 23, 2018.
Copies may be obtained by submitting a written request to the Division, with prepayment by personal check or money order for the total number of copies requested; the
fee for each copy is $4.00. The proposed rules may be downloaded, free of charge, from
the Department of Workforce Services (DWS) at:

PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE RULES, REGULATIONS AND FEE SCHEDULE (PDF)