The New Medical-Legal Fee Schedule - CCR 9795
Quick 100% Payment from the claims payer depends on an accurate billing. .
Your strong medical-legal report deserves a complete, accurate, and immediate payment. However, an incorrect code, page count, modifier, or declaration will delay your payment. It will also cause the claims payer to reduce the charge, or to deny the charge altogether.
This focused one-hour program explains the medical-legal fee schedule under Title 8, California Code of Regulations, section 9795.
Perry J. Carpenter, D.C., QME, presents a practical system that helps evaluators prepare accurate charges and avoid common billing errors.
What You Will Learn
The course explains how to:
- Select the correct code from ML200 through ML205.
- Distinguish comprehensive, follow-up, and supplemental evaluations.
- Calculate the pages that the base fee includes.
- Charge correctly for excess pages.
- Apply individual and combined modifiers.
- Bill for deposition testimony.
- Bill for the review of sub rosa recordings.
- Address missed appointments and late cancellations.
- Place the required verification in the report.
- Prepare an invoice that clearly supports each charge.
Practical examples show how to apply the regulation to common medical-legal services.
Your Payment Advantage
Claims payers can process a complete and accurate invoice efficiently. Clear documentation also reduces requests for correction, objections, and payment disputes.
The course gives you a repeatable method:
Correct Service → Correct Code → Accurate Calculation → Clear Documentation → Quick 100% Payment
Bill With Confidence
Do not allow preventable billing errors to delay or reduce payment for your work.
Learn how to apply section 9795, document each charge, and give the claims payer the information needed to issue Quick 100% Payment.
Your Course Examination
After completing the course, you will take a brief online examination based on the material presented. Please provide your professional information, answer all required questions, and submit your responses. Once completed, download or print your confirmation or certificate for your records.