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The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission has issued an advisory notice updating the authorization for release of claims information form. The new form can be accessed here.

Outpatient Hospital

Claims for outpatient services rendered at a hospital are paid based on grouping outpatient services into ambulatory payment classifications (APCs). Services within an APC are similar clinically and require comparable resources. Each APC is assigned a relative payment rate based on the median cost of the services within that classification.